Received this yesterday in the parcel.  This debut effort by the author Emily Fridlund is one of the six shortlisted works of fiction for this year's 'Man Booker Prize', to be awarded in a few days from now.  The Booker Prize, first given in 1969, is a prestigious literary prize awarded each year to the best original novel written in English and published in the UK.  Before 2014, only writers from the British Commonwealth and Africa were eligible to be nominated for the award.  But ever since the doors were opened for the American writers to also participate three years ago, they have been able to corner a major chunk of the nominations.