The novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007;[2] it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best book in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific and the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry[3][4] and 2008 it won the Kiriyama Prize for books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia. In 2008, the American Library Association recognized it as one of the year's top ten books for young adults.[5]
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