London: Indian-origin writer Kiran Desai's novel The Inheritance of Loss on Thursday made its way into the shorlist for this year's Man Booker prize along with five other works of fiction.
Her book, a cross-continental saga set in New York and India with a teenage girl as the protagonist, explores contemporary issues like multiculturalism, fundamentalism and terrorist violence.
Kiran is the daughter of noted writer Anita Desai who has been short-listed for the prize three times in the 1980s.
The other five books which have made it to the shorlist for the $ 50,000 award are Kate Grenville's The Secret River, M J Hyland's Carry Me Down, Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men Edward St Aubyn's Mother's Milk and Sarah Waters's The Night Watch.
Each of the six authors, selected from a longlist of 19 titles, receives $2,500. The award, which went to The Sea by Irish author John Banville last year, is due to be announced on October 10.
British author David Mitchell - the bookmakers' early favourite to win when the longlist was announced last month - is not included on the shortlist. Previous recipients Peter Carey, Nadine Gordimer and Barry Unsworth also failed to make it past the first round, BBC reported.
"Each of these novels has what we as judges were most looking for," academic Hermione Lee, chair of this year's judging panel, was quoted as saying.
Of this year's shortlisted authors, only Sarah Waters has been nominated before. Hisham Matar is the only first-time novelist to make the cut.
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