This year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist is notable for its international diversity.
AT 30,000 words and 104 pages, Colm Toibin’s The Testament Of Mary can be read in an afternoon – but it is unquestionably a novel, Man Booker judges said on Tuesday, as it became the most slender work to be shortlisted for the £50,000 (RM257,000) prize.
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