2006 Guardian First Book shortlist announced
Date: November 3, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
Shortlist for this year’s Guardian First Book Award has been announced. In the competition for the £10,000 prize, awarded annually for the best fiction or non-fiction book by a debut author, are:
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by Yiyun Li
In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In “Immortality”, winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In “Extra”, first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. …
You can read more about A Thousand Years of Good Prayers at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living
by Carrie Tiffany
In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human condition and vividly evokes the hope and disappointment of an era. …
You can read more about Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
In the Country of Men
by Hisham Matar
Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, Matar’s debut novel tracks the effects of Libyan strongman Khadafy’s 1969 September revolution on the el-Dawani family, as seen by nine-year-old Suleiman, who narrates as an adult. …
You can read more about In the Country of Men at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Harbor
by Lorraine Adams
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lorraine Adams has crafted a debut novel worthy of any seasoned novelist’s pen. Harbor is as current as the headlines, chronicling the desperate, confused, marginal lives of a group of Arab Muslims in Boston, Montreal, and Brooklyn. …
You can read more about Harbor at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Poppy Shakespeare
by Clare Allan
Highly original and darkly funny, Clare Allan’s debut novel explores the relationship between N., a patient in a mental institution, and Poppy Shakespeare, a new and disturbingly ’sane’ arrival who finds herself having to feign mental illness in order to be released. …
You can read more about Poppy Shakespeare at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
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