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was announced earlier today. And here are your eight finalists (is there any rhyme and/or reason to this figure? or the enormously long longlist?):

• by Junot Díaz

• by Jean Echenoz, translated from the original French by LInda Coverdale

• by Mohsin Hamid

• by Travis Holland

• The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen, translated from the original Norwegian by Don Shaw and Don Bartlett

• by David Leavitt

• by Indra Sinha

• Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas