{"id":279696,"date":"2010-09-07T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/09\/07\/man-booker-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:31:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:31:52","slug":"man-booker-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/09\/07\/man-booker-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Booker Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/news\/stories\/1451\">shortlist<\/a> for this year&#8217;s Man Booker Prize was announced earlier today. Looks like a decent enough list, although I&#8217;m pretty surprised that the David Mitchell book didn&#8217;t make it . . . Anyway, here&#8217;s the full list, and I&#8217;m sure over the next few days there will be tons of articles and posts analyzing this list. (Seeing that I haven&#8217;t read a single one of these books&#8212;although I am looking forward to <em>C<\/em> and the Emma Donoghue book sounds kinda creepy&#8212;I don&#8217;t really have anything to say . . . )<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Peter Carey, <em>Parrot and Olivier in America<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Emma Donoghue, <em>Room<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Damon Galgut, <em>In a Strange Room<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Howard Jacobson, <em>The Finkler Question<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Andrea Levy, <em>The Long Song<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tom McCarthy, <em>C<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/5-olafsson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/544.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shortlist for this year&#8217;s Man Booker Prize was announced earlier today. Looks like a decent enough list, although I&#8217;m pretty surprised that the David Mitchell book didn&#8217;t make it . . . Anyway, here&#8217;s the full list, and I&#8217;m sure over the next few days there will be tons of articles and posts analyzing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[35106,35086,35076,35096,5906,35116,21276,786],"class_list":["post-279696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-andrea-levy","tag-damon-galgut","tag-emma-donoghue","tag-howard-jacobson","tag-literary-prizes","tag-man-booker","tag-peter-carey","tag-tom-mccarthy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347426,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279696\/revisions\/347426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}