Dublin IMPAC

[khepa]

The IMPAC (largest and most international prize of its kind for a single work of fiction published in English) long list has been announced. Here's my short list, unfortunately, I only read three of these:

1. José Eduardo Agualusa - The Book of Chameleons
2. Vassilis Alexakis - Foreign Words
3. Vikram Chandra - Sacred Games
4. Upamanyu Chatterjee - Weight Loss
5. Neil Griffiths - Saving Caravaggio
6. Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants
7. Marie-Elena John - Unburnable
8. Verlyn Klinkenborg - Timothy, or, notes of an Abject Reptile
9. Colum McCann - Zoli
10. Naeem Murr - The Perfect Man
11. Peter Nadas - Own Death
12. Gary Shteyngart - Absurdistan
13. Alan Warner - The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven
14. Geling Yan - The Uninvited