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PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2012

26 March 2012

The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka

PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2012

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Winner

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

Finalists

Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks
The Angel Esmeralda
Nine Stories

Don DeLillo
The Artist of Disappearance

Anita Desai
We Others
New and Selected Stories

Steven Millhauser

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