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The Man Booker International. The Orange. "There's a poignant and moving novel here, perhaps; I just didn't quite get it."

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Who'll Get the Orange?

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There's an unwritten rule that a Booker prize winner doesn't win the Orange prize, but that hasn't stopped Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss moving to the shortlist of the women-only Orange Prize. Expectedly, though, Desai's novel is not a frontrunner for the £30,000 Orange. The favourites are bestselling Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Anne Tyler's Digging to America.

Guo, Woman, Go
Chinglish is in the process of making literary history, with a romantic comedy, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo making it to the Orange shortlist. As the Guardian reviewer wrote, "There's a poignant and moving novel here, perhaps; I just didn't quite get it."

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