12 Asian authors in the spotlight: the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize longlist

12 Asian novels made the longlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize

12. "The Lake," by Banana Yoshimoto

The latest novel by popular Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto centers on a woman who has come to Tokyo after her mother's death. She meets a mysterious man who may have been involved in a cult, a fictional group that resembles the Aum Shinrikyo cult that released poison gas into the subways in Tokyo in 1995.

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