The Fortune Men
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award
$34.41
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2022
Summary
A heart-wrenching novel based on a true miscarriage of justice from an award-winning author.
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, petty criminal. He is many things, but he is not a murderer.
So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn’t too worried. Witnesses allegedly saw him enter a shop that night and lov…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241466957 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241466954 |
| Author: | Nadifa Mohamed |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
Mixing startling lyricism and sheer brutality , this is a significant, affecting book
Grippingly-paced and full of complex, richly-drawn characters, the novel combines pointed social observation with a deeply empathetic sensibility. The Fortune Men demonstrates what historical fiction can achieve at its best
– Maya Jasanoff, Chair of the Booker Prize 2021[An] expert illumination of real-life racial injustice in the cultural melting pot of 1950s Cardiff – Justine Jordan * Guardian, Best Fiction of 2021 *Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men is an elegant portrayal of life in the racial, cultural hub of Cardiff’s Tiger Bay in the early Fifties. Eschewing a simple morality play for complex vivid characters, it centres on the plight of Mahmood Mattan, who finds himself in the shadow of the hangman’s noose for a murder he didn’t commit – Gary Younge * New Statesman, Books of the Year *Smart and devastating, there’s a reason it’s one of our books of the year * Stylist, Unmissable Fiction Buys From 2021 *A potent, pointed novel … Mohamed is a big talent, and she’s only getting started * New York Times, Best Books of 2021 *The Fortune Men is a novel on fire, a restitution of justice in prose * FT *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 * Mail on Sunday *In her determined, nuanced and compassionate exposure of injustice, Mohamed gives the terrible story of Mattan’s life and death meaning and dignity * Guardian *A searing and moving look at institutional racism and the helplessness you can feel in the face of prejudice * Independent *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 FireAbout The Author
Nadifa Mohamed
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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