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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction あんどりゅー・かーねぎー せいじんむけ ふぃくしょん および のんふぃくしょん ゆうしゅうしょう

Edition 8 (2019)

Adult FictionAdult NonfictionLibrary-related Literary AwardUnited States

Winners

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Rebecca Makkai れべっか・まっかい Winner

A novel moving between 1980s Chicago and present-day Paris, depicting the losses, friendships, and family ruptures left by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The memory of crisis continues to shape the present.

A novel that looks at the time of crisis and the years that followed, connecting both into a single arc of loss.

432 pages
novelHIV/AIDSfriendshipfamilyloss1980s Chicago