Betting on Brown for the Booker?

posted by   arbaaz (81)   13 months ago (www.sepiamutiny.com)

Literary bettors rejoice for the shortlist for the 2007 (Man) Booker prize is out. Last year, Kiran Desai won for Inheritance of Loss. This year there are two brown authors, both expats like Desai, on the shortlist: Mohsin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Indra Sinha for Animal�s People. My book is not recommended in-flight readingThe authors on the shortlist this year are unusua