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THE FORTUNE MEN - NADIFA MOHAMED GEBUNDEN

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED
FOR THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022 '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

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