Kevin Brockmeier wins the 2006 Borders Original Voices Fiction Award
Date: February 9, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Kevin Brockmeier’s The Brief History of the Dead has won in the fiction category of the 2006 Borders Original Voices Award, which is given to emerging and innovative artists (other categories include non-fiction and music).
The Borders selection committee described the work as being “a powerful first novel. The language was poetic and the intertwining stories were the most lyrical accounts of death ever read.” In the book life on Earth and a place called “the city” — an Earth-like place inhabited by those who have died and whose existence depends on the memories of the living — are mixed through the consciousness of Laura Byrd, a wildlife specialist whose Antarctica research station has become cut from the rest of the world due to a deadly virus that is spreading across Earth.
You can read more about The Brief History of the Dead at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
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