Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう
Edition 19 (1998)
Winners
9 peopleA colonial adventure novel set in Borneo that follows travel, conquest, and cultural dislocation.
A colonial adventure novel set in Borneo that follows travel, conquest, and cultural dislocation.
A biography of Charles Lindbergh that balances heroism, fame, and contradiction.
A biography of Charles Lindbergh that balances heroism, fame, and contradiction.
A nonfiction account of the Rwandan genocide and the international failure to stop it, built from testimony and reporting.
It traces the reality of a massacre the world looked away from.
A prose work that follows a walk along the English east coast while tracing the memory of empire and the sense of collapse beneath it. Photographs, quotations, and association accumulate until the weight of history rises from the details of the landscape.
With each step, the shadow of history rises from the landscape.
An academic history that provides an overview of human medical history, summarizing the development of medicine, its social impact, and changes in the medical system from a broad perspective.
An academic history that provides an overview of human medical history, summarizing the development of medicine, its soc…
A poetry collection that traces childhood memory and poetic growth through dense, fragmentary language. Private experience rises together with the atmosphere of an era.
Fragments of memory begin to take shape as poems.
A nonfiction history of blood that moves across medicine, war, and commerce. It shows how blood, both a therapeutic resource and a commodity, generated a global system of circulation and ethical conflict.
Blood is both a symbol of life and a resource deeply tied to commerce and power.
A story about a teenage girl traveling with an older woman while confronting questions of belonging and family. It balances humor with urgency and gives the coming-of-age arc a strong sense of movement and independence.
On the road, a girl learns the work of living and the work of becoming herself.