Looking for the long listed in Chennai
The next step, now that the Booker 2006 longlist is out, is to see where we can get our hands on these books. I did a quick check for Chennai (at Landmark) and found that they had only
* Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
* The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
* Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
(yes, sounds exactly like the list of people I am rooting for!), a few other titles from Sarah Waters, M.J.Hyland and Kate Grenville.
The books in the long list that I could not locate in a Chennai bookstore are:
* Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
* Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
* The Secret River by Kate Grenville
* Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
* Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
* Seven Lies by James Lasdun
* The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
* So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
* In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
* The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
* The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr
* Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
* The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
* Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
* The Ruby in her Navel by Barry Unsworth
* The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
One of the other books in this list that got me excited a few minutes ago is So Many Ways to Begin. No, I haven't heard of this book, but by wonderful coincidence, I am in the process of reading the author, Jon McGregor's first work, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. I am eager enough to go looking for more on So Many Ways to Begin.
out of the longlist books that you did not find:
the following will be released in india in september:
get a life
secret river
so many ways to begin
country of men
emperor's children
perfect man
be near me
testament of gideon mack
the reason most bookstores do not stock them is that they are currently available only in hardcover, each costing more than a grand.
incidentally, night watch was available at landmark, last time i checked.
sorry for the anonymous post, but i cant remember my blogger password
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:40 PM, September 10, 2006
and the book that i was seriously backing for a shortlist did not even get longlisted
clare morall's brilliant 'natural flights of the human mind'
Posted by
heartless poet |
11:31 PM, September 10, 2006