London: Kolkata-born British author Neel Mukherjee's latest novel 'The Lives of Others', set in troubled Bengal of the 1960s and centres around a dysfunctional family, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize 2014, in its debut as a global literary award.

Mukherjee, who studied at Oxford and Cambridge, was also the only Indian-origin author to be longlisted earlier this
year, the first time the prestigious literary award opened up for anyone writing in English regardless of ationality.