Booker Prize: Alan Garner is the oldest writer to make the shortlist
Image source, David Heke
Image source, David HekeHis book Treacle Walker faces five novels including Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, the shortest to be retained, at 116 pages.
However, the organizers say that Treacle Walker is even shorter in number of words.
NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Elizabeth Strout and Shehan Karunatilaka are also nominated.
Zimbabwean author Bulawayo makes her second appearance on the shortlist with her book Glory, an allegory seen through the eyes of animals.< /p>
Garner's book , about an unlikely friendship between a healer and a young boy, took eight years to write.
Image source, David HekeHis book Treacle Walker faces five novels including Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, the shortest to be retained, at 116 pages.
However, the organizers say that Treacle Walker is even shorter in number of words.
NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Elizabeth Strout and Shehan Karunatilaka are also nominated.
Zimbabwean author Bulawayo makes her second appearance on the shortlist with her book Glory, an allegory seen through the eyes of animals.< /p>
Garner's book , about an unlikely friendship between a healer and a young boy, took eight years to write.
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