The National Book Award fiction finalists for 2008 include some well-known and a few new authors. The five nominees are The Lazarius Project by Aleksandar Hemon, Shadow Country by veteran author Peter Matthiessen (a co-founder of the Paris Review), The End, a first novel from Salvatore Scibona, Home by Pulitzer Prize winning author Marilynne Robinson, Telex from Cuba, a debut novel by Rachel Kushner.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in NYC next month on November 19th.