The Fortune Men
Somali novelist, born 1981.
The Fortune Men is a 2021 non-fiction novel by Nadifa Mohamed. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021.
On 2 of the 11 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Nadifa Mohamed
- First published
- 2021
- Length
- 384 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 2021
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 2021
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Crime, Migration and identity
Is The Fortune Men worth reading?
2 of the 11 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2021) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2021) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Fortune Men
The edition we link to is the Viking paperback (2022), 384 pages.
- Publisher
- Viking (paperback, 2022)
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780241466957
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Fortune Men
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work