The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
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The Fortune Men
- By: Nadifa Mohamed
- Narrated by: Hugh Quarshie
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Costa Novel Award 2021.
The story of a murder, a miscarriage of justice and a man too innocent for his times....
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, petty criminal. He is a smooth talker with rakish charm and an eye for a good game. He is many things, but he is not a murderer.
So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. Since his Welsh wife Laura kicked him out for racking up debts he has wandered the streets more often, and there are witnesses who allegedly saw him enter the shop that night. But Mahmood has escaped worse scrapes, and he is innocent in this country where justice is served. Love lends him immunity too: the fierce love of Laura, who forgives his gambling in a heartbeat, and his children. It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of returning home dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and cruelty - and that the truth may not be enough to save him.
©2021 Nadifa Mohamed (P)2021 Penguin Audio
Geraldine Quinnell
Brilliant Narration, great book.
Brilliant narration with authentic accents made this a wonderful audible experience. The book is so well written, I highly recommend it. I am now going to purchase the hard copy so I can read it again in a different way.
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Anonymous User
Very confusing
Took me a few tries to get past the first hour. I had no idea who was who and the characters didn’t get much depth. Not sure where the 4.5 stars came from in the reviews as all of our book club (those that struggled through and managed to finish it) thought it was average. It was nice to hear the epilogue explaining the history behind it but overall wouldn’t recommend the book 🙁