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Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal (jidō bungaku shō)

Edition 88 (2023)

Children's literatureYoung adultEnglish-language

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Manon Steffan Ros まのん すてふぁん ろす Winner

The English translation of a Welsh novel about a mother and son living after a nuclear disaster. It shows persistence and change in a ruined world with remarkable delicacy.

Even after the end, the parent-child bond keeps changing quietly.

160 pages
translated noveldystopiamother and sonmemory