Man Booker Prize 2013 longlist announced

The thirteen books on this year's longlist for the £50,000 prize was announced today
The longlist is:
• Tash Aw, Five Star Billionaire (Fourth Estate)
• NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Games (Chatto & Windus)
• Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (Granta)
• Jim Crace, Harvest (Picador)
• Eve Harris, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman (Sandstone Press)
• Richard House, The Kills (Picador)
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland (Bloomsbury)
• Alison MacLeod, Unexploded (Hamish Hamilton)
• Colum McCann, TransAtlantic (Hamish Hamilton)
• Charlotte Mendelson, Almost English (Mantle)
• Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Canongate)
• Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart (Doubleday Ireland)
• Colm Toibin, The Testament of Mary (Viking)
Of the 13 writers, only two - Jim Crace and Colm Toibin - have previously appeared on a Booker longlist.
The Man Booker Prize shortlist will be announced in September.

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