Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう
Edition 28 (2007)
Winners
10 peopleThe 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction went to Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.
A novel of immigrant loneliness and urban dislocation.
The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography went to Simon Sebag Montefiore's Young Stalin.
A biography of Stalin before he became Stalin.
A memoir by a literature professor at West Point that reflects on what it means to read books in the space between war and peace. Through conversations with cadets headed to Iraq and Afghanistan, Samet shows how literature shapes the thoughts and feelings of young people preparing for military service.
A quiet memoir that explores what it means to read literature between war and peace from a West Point classroom.