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The Fortune Men:
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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
The Fortune Men describes how innocence is forced to justify itself before gross injustice. A novel of tremendous power, compassion and subtlety, it feels unsettlingly timely — Pankaj Mishra
In her determined, nuanced and compassionate exposure of injustice, Mohamed gives the terrible story of Mattan’s life and death meaning and dignity ― Guardian
The Fortune Men confirms Mohamed as a literary star of her generation. When Mohamed’s prose – simple and full of soul – illuminated him, Mahmood emerges as a beacon of humour, hope and endurance ― Observer
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
The Fortune Men is a novel on fire, a restitution of justice in prose ― FT
The Fortune Men is that rare novel that breaks your heart and, in so doing, gives you life. Nadifa Mohamed is a revelation – she writes with the fierce compassionate lightning of a truth-teller, lays bare the ghastly colonial condition that afflicts so many of us, where truth cannot overcome injustice. If a novel can be an avenger then The Fortune Men is the one we’ve all been waiting for — Junot Diaz
Mohamed is . . . intent on expanding her world, listing its teeming varieties and presenting a wealth of character and language ― TLS
Evocative and enlightening ― New Statesman
A moving work ― The Week, Novel of the Week
A moving and captivating tale of survival and hope in a war-torn country, and confirms Mohamed’s stature as one of Britain’s best young novelists ― Stylist on The Orchard of Lost Souls
It’s unbearably wrenching . . . Mohamed makes the outrage at the book’s heart blazingly unignorable by inhabiting Mattan’s point of view, a bold endeavour pulled off to powerful effect. Passages from the barbaric climax are still echoing in my head, even as I type ― Daily Mail
Mixing startling lyricism and sheer brutality, this is a significant, affecting book ― Guardian, on Black Mamba Boy
Just as Half of a Yellow Sun drew out the little documented dramas of the Biafran war, Mohamed describes an East Africa under Mussolini’s rule . . . such an accomplished first novel ― Independent, on Black Mamba Boy
A first novel of elegance and beauty… a stunning debut ― The Times, on Black Mamba Boy
A haunting and intimate portrait of the lives of women in war-torn Somalia ― New York Journal of Books, on The Orchard of Lost Souls
With the unadorned language of a wise, clear-eyed observer, Nadifa Mohamed has spun an unforgettable tale ― Taiye Selasi, on The Orchard of Lost Souls
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