OURS ARE THE STREETS by SUNJEEV SAHOTA, Picador Books, Wharf Road, London, UK, 2011, FIRST BRITISH PAPERBACK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. This is a story about a young man who decides to take his own... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Yesterday the shortlist of 6 finalists for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for fiction were announced. There is one debut novelist in Chigozie Obioma, but other than that the list is made up of known quantities. Here are some thoughts.
Marlon James has made it to the shortlist for the first time, continuing a prolific hit rate after John Crow's Body was a finalist for the LA Times Book prize and his The Book of Night Women also became a finalist in the 2010 National Book Critics Circle award.