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Shree's book, described by the judges as a "loud and irresistible novel", will compete with five other titles from around the world for the prestigious 50,000 pounds literary prize, which is split evenly between the author and translator.
Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, Japan's Mieko Kawakami are among the novelists on the International Booker Prize shortlist, which features a Hindi novel for the first time.
Works translated from Korean, Norwegian, Japanese, Spanish, Polish and, a first, Hindi
Novels by Olga Tokarczuk, Mieko Kawakami and Claudia Piñeiro are in the running for the prestigious award for translated fiction.
The final contenders for the £50,000 prize for translated fiction – five out of six by women – could see Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk win a second time