The 2007 Orange Prize shortlist has been announced:
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf)
Arlington Park, by Rachel Cusk (Farrar)
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (Grove/Atlantic)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese)
The Observations, by Jane Harris (Viking)
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler (Knopf)
I haven’t consulted Ladbrokes, but I wouldn’t bet against Kiran Desai.
