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AWARD WINNER
Pulitzer winner! Rendering with warmth the endless human capacity to persevere, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao has been praised by critics and readers alike since its publication in late 2007. Now this groundbreaking tale by a first-time novelist has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. As vibrant and colorful as the Dominican family at its center, this novel centers on the observations and experiences of its obese, nerdy (and altogether original) titular hero.
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2007 winner
ORANGE PRIZE
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
War's chilling costs. Nigerian novelist Adichie artfully
interweaves the lives of five unforgettable characters caught up
in extraordinary tumult during the independent nation of Biafra's
impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in
Nigeria during the 1960s. A dramatic, intensely evocative
depiction of the impact of war's brutalities on every class of
people, Half of a Yellow Sun is an engrossing look at a truly
remarkable place and a time in world history.
2007 honoree
NOBEL PRIZE
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
2007 Nobel Prize winner. This brutally honest and emotionally powerful novel is widely considered Lessing's masterpiece and was hailed as a feminist masterwork when first published in 1962. It's the tale of Anna Wulf, a writer living in London, who compartmentalizes her lives, past and present, into various colored notebooks. Complex, layered, and deeply psychological, it pinpoints the pulse of a generation of women waiting to see what their postwar hopes would bring.
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