The shortlist

The shortlist

The inaugural US$10,000 Man Asia Literary Prize (US$3,000 for the translator) will be announced on November 10 in Hong Kong. Below are the five works that made the cut from the long list of 23.

Families at Home by Reeti Gadekar (India)

Gadekar was born and raised in New Delhi and has a PhD in German literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Families at Home is about the murder of a woman in one of New Delhi's leading families.

Habit of a Foreign Sky by Xu Xi

(Hong Kong)

Named by The New York Times as one of Asia's pioneer writers in English, Xu left corporate life in 1998 to focus on her writing. Habit of a Foreign Sky is set during the Asian financial crisis and focuses on a woman who loses mother and son on the same day.