Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう
Edition 34 (2013)
Winners
12 peopleA debut novel that follows a Zimbabwean girl's migration, loss, and coming of age.
Away from home, a new life begins for children who have already lost too much.
A biography of Simón Bolívar that also maps the history of Latin American independence.
To follow the liberator's life is to follow a continent's history.
An investigative nonfiction work examining medical decisions and deaths at a hospital after Hurricane Katrina.
In a disaster zone, how far can life-and-death judgment be pushed?
A novel in which a Tokyo girl's diary and the life of an island novelist intersect through memory and time.
Letters and diaries connect two lives separated by the Pacific.
An autobiographical graphic memoir tracing a young woman's experiences across Europe.
Fragments of travel and memory shape one woman's passage into adulthood.
A history book that re-reads Europe in 1914 through the chain of decisions that led to World War I.
War emerges not from accident, but from accumulated choices.
A London-set detective novel published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
The detective pursues not just a case, but a knot of tangled relationships.
A wide-ranging collected volume of Ron Padgett's poetry.
Lightness and humor gather into a single career-spanning volume.
A report-style nonfiction book that examines the future of population and the environment around the world.
It looks at the planet's limits while still searching for choices ahead.
A two-part graphic novel diptych about the Boxer Rebellion, collecting Boxers and Saints.
The same history is reframed through two stories from opposite sides.