Due to changes in the rules and publication deadline for the Man Booker Prize in 1970, nearly a year's worth of novels were not eligible for consideration. The Lost Man Booker Prize is intended to make up for that oversight by naming the best novel published in 1970. After an international vote on the Man Booker Prize website, the verdict is in and J.G. Farrell's novel Troubles has been named the winner. Farrell died in 1979.
A book group I belonged to in Bangkok read the excellent second novel in Farrell's Empire trilogy, The Siege of Krishnapur, which won the Booker Prize in 1973 and was shortlisted for the "Best of the Bookers" Prize awarded to Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children in 2008. Now I will have to jump on the bandwagon and read Troubles as well. Another title for the TBR pile!
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