The Hindu : Mistry trails in Booker race

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002

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Mistry trails in Booker race

By Hasan Suroor

LONDON OCT. 22. Hours before the winner of this year's Booker Prize was due to be announced late on Tuesday night — too late for Indians to catch the news — India's Rohinton Mistry was trailing well behind at least five front-runners for the £50,000 literary honour.

Mistry's novel "Family Matters,'' a touching and leisurely told account of a dysfunctional Parsi family, was at the bottom of the punters' heap facing odds of 9-1. The favourite was Yann Martel's "Life of Pi'', a typical work of the kind of magic realism that never fails to impress the Booker judges. The book has already been "inadvertently'' declared a winner on the Booker website.

Other strong contenders include William Trevor's "The Story of Lucy Gault'', Tim Winton's "Dirt Music'', Carol Shields' "Unless'' and Sarah Waters' "Fingersmith'', story of a lesbian affair whose controversial TV adaptation was screened by BBC recently.

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