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UNDER THE COVER
Book Reviews
Indian authors Aravind Adiga and Amitav Ghosh have been nominated for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The two are six of the novelists short listed for the nearly $92,000 prize, which will be announced Oct. 14. The other novelists are Sebastian Barry for "The Secret Scripture," Linda Grant for "the Clothes on their Backs," Philip Hensher for "The Northern Clemency" and Steve Toltz for "A Fraction of the Whole."
The Madras-born Adiga has been nominated for his book "The White Tiger," about a self-proclaimed social entrepreneur, a poor servant who has managed to rise above his station. He's also a murderer. He confesses the transfixing story of his life to the premier of China, who is expected to visit India on a mission to learn about entrepreneurialism.
Ghosh has been picked for "Sea of Poppies," the first volume of his Ibis Trilogy. During colonial upheaval, fate brings together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners - from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers.
By M. P. RAVINDRA NATHAN, MD, FRCP (LONDON AND CANADA), FACP, FACC
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