All the Lives We Never Lived has been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. The shortlist is drawn from a longlist of 156 novels submitted by library systems in 119 cities in 40 countries. The statement from the judges said: "Set in the 1930s, Anuradha Roy’s new novel is like an Indian raga that continues to resonate long after you have finished the last chapter. Myshkin is the nine year-old protagonist, and the central event in his life is revealed in the novel’s opening sentence: “I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman”. The Englishman turned out to be Walter, a German, who had to leave British India in a hurry, taking Myshkin’s beloved mother, with him, triggering a memorable saga of love, memory, kindness, human frailty and the devastating loneliness of a boy." Listen here to brilliant actors reading from the shortlisted books Excerpted below is a report by Martin Doyle in Irish Times Nobel Prize, Women’s Pr