The Fortune Men: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Autor Nadifa Mohameden Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iun 2022
'Chilling and utterly compelling,The Fortune Menshines an essential light on a much-neglected period of our national life' Sathnam Sanghera, author ofEmpireland
Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer.
So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. It is true that he has been getting into trouble more often since his Welsh wife Laura left him. But Mahmood is secure in his innocence in a country where, he thinks, justice is served.
It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of freedom dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a terrifying fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and the inhumanity of the state. And, under the shadow of the hangman's noose, he begins to realise that the truth may not be enough to save him.
'A writer of great humanity and intelligence. Nadifa Mohamed deeply understands how lives are shaped both by the grand sweep of history and the intimate encounters of human beings'Kamila Shamsie, author ofHome Fire
'A novel of tremendous power, compassion and subtlety, it feels unsettlingly timely'Pankaj Mishra
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241466957
ISBN-10: 0241466954
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241466954
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, in 1981 and moved to Britain at the age of four. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won the Betty Trask Prize; it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. Her second novel, Orchard of Lost Souls, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Prix Albert Bernard. Nadifa Mohamed was selected for the Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Fortune Men was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award. Nadifa Mohamed lives in London.
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Chilling and utterly compelling,The Fortune Menshines an essential light on a much-neglected period of our national life
The Fortune Mendescribes how innocence is forced to justify itself before gross injustice.A novel of tremendous power, compassion and subtlety, it feels unsettlingly timely
In her determined, nuanced and compassionate exposure of injustice, Mohamed gives the terrible story of Mattan's life and death meaning and dignity
The Fortune Menconfirms Mohamed as a literary star of her generation.When Mohamed's prose - simple and full of soul - illuminated him, Mahmood emerges as a beacon of humour, hope and endurance
Based on real events, Mohamed's novel is panoramic in its scope and rich in period atmosphere, vividly tracing the desperate livers of the victim and the accused
The Fortune Menisa novel on fire, a restitution of justice in prose
The Fortune Menis thatrare novel that breaks your heart and, in so doing, gives you life. Nadifa Mohamed is a revelation - she writes with thefierce compassionate lightning of a truth-teller, lays bare the ghastly colonial condition that afflicts so many of us, where truth cannot overcome injustice.If a novel can be an avenger thenThe Fortune Menis the one we've all been waiting for
Mohamed is . . . intent on expanding her world, listing its teeming varieties and presentinga wealth of character and language
Evocative and enlightening
A moving work
Amoving and captivating tale of survival and hopein a war-torn country, and confirms Mohamed's stature asone of Britain's best young novelists
It's unbearably wrenching . . . Mohamed makes the outrage at the book's heart blazingly unignorable by inhabiting Mattan's point of view,a bold endeavour pulled off to powerful effect. Passages from the barbaric climax are still echoing in my head, even as I type
Mixingstartling lyricismandsheer brutality, this isa significant, affecting book
Just asHalf of a Yellow Sundrew out the little documented dramas of the Biafran war, Mohamed describes an East Africa under Mussolini's rule . . .such an accomplished first novel
A first novel ofelegance and beauty...a stunning debut
Ahauntingandintimateportrait of the lives of women in war-torn Somalia
With the unadorned language ofa wise, clear-eyed observer, Nadifa Mohamedhas spun an unforgettable tale
Chilling and utterly compelling,The Fortune Menshines an essential light on a much-neglected period of our national life
The Fortune Mendescribes how innocence is forced to justify itself before gross injustice.A novel of tremendous power, compassion and subtlety, it feels unsettlingly timely
In her determined, nuanced and compassionate exposure of injustice, Mohamed gives the terrible story of Mattan's life and death meaning and dignity
The Fortune Menconfirms Mohamed as a literary star of her generation.When Mohamed's prose - simple and full of soul - illuminated him, Mahmood emerges as a beacon of humour, hope and endurance
Based on real events, Mohamed's novel is panoramic in its scope and rich in period atmosphere, vividly tracing the desperate livers of the victim and the accused
The Fortune Menisa novel on fire, a restitution of justice in prose
The Fortune Menis thatrare novel that breaks your heart and, in so doing, gives you life. Nadifa Mohamed is a revelation - she writes with thefierce compassionate lightning of a truth-teller, lays bare the ghastly colonial condition that afflicts so many of us, where truth cannot overcome injustice.If a novel can be an avenger thenThe Fortune Menis the one we've all been waiting for
Mohamed is . . . intent on expanding her world, listing its teeming varieties and presentinga wealth of character and language
Evocative and enlightening
A moving work
Amoving and captivating tale of survival and hopein a war-torn country, and confirms Mohamed's stature asone of Britain's best young novelists
It's unbearably wrenching . . . Mohamed makes the outrage at the book's heart blazingly unignorable by inhabiting Mattan's point of view,a bold endeavour pulled off to powerful effect. Passages from the barbaric climax are still echoing in my head, even as I type
Mixingstartling lyricismandsheer brutality, this isa significant, affecting book
Just asHalf of a Yellow Sundrew out the little documented dramas of the Biafran war, Mohamed describes an East Africa under Mussolini's rule . . .such an accomplished first novel
A first novel ofelegance and beauty...a stunning debut
Ahauntingandintimateportrait of the lives of women in war-torn Somalia
With the unadorned language ofa wise, clear-eyed observer, Nadifa Mohamedhas spun an unforgettable tale
Descriere
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
'Chilling and utterly compelling, The Fortune Men shines an essential light on a much-neglected period of our national life' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland
Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer.
So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. It is true that he has been getting into trouble more often since his Welsh wife Laura left him. But Mahmood is secure in his innocence in a country where, he thinks, justice is served.
It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of freedom dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a terrifying fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and the inhumanity of the state. And, under the shadow of the hangman's noose, he begins to realise that the truth may not be enough to save him.
'A writer of great humanity and intelligence. Nadifa Mohamed deeply understands how lives are shaped both by the grand sweep of history and the intimate encounters of human beings' Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire
'A novel of tremendous power, compassion and subtlety, it feels unsettlingly timely' Pankaj Mishra