Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist

If you’re tired of this year’s glaringly white Man Something Else List (as Margaret Howie from Bookslut writes in her blog):

With a Stone in My Heart - Gopilal Acharya (Bhutan)
Jimmy the Terrorist - Omair Ahmand (India)
Say Scholar - Siddharth Chowdhury (India)
Witness the Night - Kishwar Desai (India)
The Descartes Highlands - Eric Gamalinda (Philippines)
The Last Gods of Indochine - Samuel Ferrer (Hong Kong)
Rough with the Smooth - Ram Govarhan (India)
History of Hate - Kanishka Gupta (India)
Memoirs of a Terrorist - Kamaroon Rasheed Ismeer (UAE)
Overwinter - Ratika Kapur (India)
The Bereavement of Agnes Desmoulins - Mariam Karim (India)
The Autobiography of a Mad Nation - Sriram Karri (India)
Residue - Nitasha Kaul (India)
Leche - R. Zamora Linmark (Philippines)
Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions - Mario I. Miclat (Philippines)
Different Countries - Clarissa V. Militante (Philippines)
Omigod - Varuna Mohite (India)
Thunder Demons - Dipika Mukherjee (India)
Blackland - Hena Pillai (India)
Lin Xiu-Tzi and Her Family - Roan Ching-yueh (Taiwan)
Eight Muses of the Fall - Edgar Calabia Samar (Philippines)
Table of Four – K. Srilata (India)
The Boat to Redemption - Su Tong (China)
Shadow of the Red Star - Oyungerel Tsedevamba (Mongolia)

I hope that at least one or two of these books will be acknowledged in Europe, because I must admit that I'm bored with this year's Man Booker Prize longlist.