2010 MAN Booker Prize Long-List
Penguin Books is thrilled to announce the inclusion of FOUR books on the MAN Booker Prize long-list (announced on the 27th of July)
The nominated titles are:
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (Penguin - Fig Tree)
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)
and
Penguin Books SA is particularly proud that our very own
Damon Galgut
has received a prestigious place on the long-list for his most recent book
In a Strange Room
 About the book:
A young man makes three journeys that take him through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way – including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge – he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man’s best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life. A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man’s search for love, and a place to call home.
 About the author:
Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963, and now lives in Cape Town. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor. The Good Doctor was short-listed for the 2003 MAN Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award. The Impostor won the 2008 University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing, and was short-listed for the 2009 M-Net Literary Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the African Region.
About the MAN Booker Prize:
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.
The short-list will be announced on the 7th of September, and the winner announced on the 12th of October.
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