Last year, Hillary Mantel's 'Bring Up the Bodies' took home the prize. Mantel became only the third author, after Peter Carey and J M Coetzee, to win the prize twice.
In 2008, Indian author Aravind Adiga won the Booker for 'The White Tiger' and Kiran Desai took home the prize in 2006 for her novel 'The Inheritance of Loss'.
"Global in its reach, this exceptional shortlist demonstrates the vitality and range of the contemporary novel at its finest," Macfarlane said.
"These six superb works of fiction take us from gold-rush New Zealand to revolutionary Calcutta, from modern-day Japan to the Holy Land of the Gospels, and from Zimbabwe to the deep English countryside.
"World-spanning in their concerns, and ambitious in their techniques, they remind us of the possibilities and power of the novel as a form," he said.
In 'The Lowland', Jhumpa explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience.
Her publisher Bloomsbury has described the book "epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew".
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in English, by a citizen of Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.
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