"We Need New Names" Now on Booker Prize Shortlist
The announcement just came in. "We Need New Names" by NoViolet Bulawayo, is now on the Booker Prize Shortlist. The list is strong and diverse. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus) The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta) The Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador) The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury) A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate) The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Penguin) "The six books on the list could not be more diverse. There are examples from novelists from New Zealand, England, Canada, Ireland and Zimbabwe – each with its own highly distinctive taste. They range in size from the 832 pages of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries to the 104-page The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín. The times represented stretch from the biblical Middle East (Tóibín) to contemporary Zimbabwe (NoViolet Bulawayo) by way of 19th-century New Zealand (Catton), 1960s India (Jumpha L...