Which one of the following books won the Man Booker Prize 2014 ?

[amp_mcq option1=”History of the Rain” option2=”The Lives of Others” option3=”The Narrow Road to the Deep North” option4=”How to be Both” correct=”option3″]

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The correct answer is C) The Narrow Road to the Deep North. The Australian author Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2014 for his novel ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’.

– The Man Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award for a novel written in English and published in the UK.
– The 2014 prize was awarded to Richard Flanagan’s novel.
– ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is a historical novel set during the construction of the Burma Railway during World War II.

The shortlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize also included ‘How to Be Both’ by Ali Smith, ‘The Lives of Others’ by Neel Mukherjee, ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ by Karen Joy Fowler, ‘J’ by Howard Jacobson, and ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ by Joshua Ferris. ‘History of the Rain’ by Niall Williams was longlisted.

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