# @thebookerprizes on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-09-15T08:50:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

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Congratulations to Nadifa Mohamed, who is shortlisted for the #2021BookerPrize with ‘The Fortune Men’

Chair of judges Jasanoff says: ‘'The Fortune Men' takes us to a place we haven’t encountered on the page before: the docklands of 1950s Cardiff, jostling with Somali, Welsh, Jewish, Jamaican, and Indian communities, thrown together by the tides of empire and war. 

In the story of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali sailor accused of murder, Nadifa Mohamed creates a story as local as it is exhilaratingly global. 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—to get inside the head of the past—while implicitly yet urgently underscoring the present-day persistence of racism and injustice.’

#BookerPrize #TheFortuneMen VikingBooksUK PenguinBooks

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