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For those of you with money on The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, this news will be unpleasant. The Man Booker shortlist has been announced, and David Mitchell’s novel doesn’t make an appearance. Here are the final contenders:

Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey

Room, by Emma Donoghue

In a Strange Room, by Damon Galgut

The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson

The Long Song, by Andrea Levy

C, by Tom McCarthy

The winner will be announced October 12th.

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