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Christmas 2008

The reading year: Fiction

By Rosie Blau, books editor

Published: December 5 2008 20:52 | Last updated: December 5 2008 20:52

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Rosie Blau, FT books editor, and colleagues review their fiction picks of the year

In fiction, 20 years after Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses was published, the next generation of south Asian voices made their mark: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker prize with his debut, The White Tiger; Nadeem Aslam published his harrowing, beautiful The Wasted Vigil; and Mohammed Hanif produced an exuberant page-turner with A Case of Exploding Mangoe.

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