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'Human beings are animals after all'

UK's prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize will be announced on October 14, this year. Indian readers have the India-born, London-based writer Neel Mukherjee to cheer for, as his riveting 500-page novel The Lives of Others, captures a Calcutta family in the 1960s. Kanika Sharma chats with the author

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Q. With the countdown begun for the Booker Prize, how do you feel on getting shortlisted?
A.
I’m a bit shell-shocked actually. I feel incredibly lucky to have The Lives of Others, among the top six out of 155 submissions. It is incredible. I sympathise with the judges for having had to read a novel a day for five months.

Neel Mukherjee Writer
Neel Mukherjee Writer

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