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Reel
Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Reel

George Szirtes

George Szirtes came to England as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising. His two earlier Bloodaxe selections The Budapest File and An English Apocalypse brought together his poems on Hungarian and English themes. In this later collection, Reel, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the exile's obsessive quest for the nature of humane truth is the focus of poems of visionary sweep which pan out across a life. Memory is film in Reel: a film-crew shoot Budapest for Berlin; faces float like light on the sea; names appear and disappear on a search engine. George Szirtes reconstructs childhood from a confusion of memories, photographs and stories in which men and women change places and fathers multiply. There are sequences on love, desire and illusion, poems about political loyalties, and poems that form ghost texts shadowing other writers. Reel is now includes in his New & Collected Poems.

T. S. Eliot Prize
Somewhere Else
Coffee House Press

Somewhere Else

Matthew Shenoda, Sonia Sanchez

"From the teeming streets of Cairo to the urban United States, from Egypt's indigenous, pre-Islamic Coptic society to an America struggling with its reckless global presence, Somewhere Else spans generational and cultural divides. In poems both personal and political, nuanced and energized, Shenoda celebrates his Coptic heritage, riffs on jazz and hip-hop, and expands perceptions of place and history."--Jacket.

American Book Awards
Country Of Origin
W W Norton & Co Inc

Country Of Origin

Don Lee

A novel about a Chinese American family in San Francisco that centers on the tensions between generations, success, and belonging. It follows family life and social pressure in equal measure.

American Book Awards
March: A Novel
Viking Adult

March: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks

A Civil War novel that follows the absent father from Little Women as he confronts slavery, idealism, and the cost of conviction.

Pulitzer Prize
Looking for Alaska
Dutton Books for Young Readers

Looking for Alaska

John Green

Miles is drawn to the enigmatic Alaska and learns about friendship, loss, and how to face himself during life at a boarding school. In the aftermath of a life-changing event, the novel carefully layers the emotional turbulence of adolescence.

Michael L. Printz AwardMichael L. Printz Award
Josh
Front Street

Josh

Ivan Southall

Josh follows a fourteen-year-old poet whose week in rural Australia turns tense and unsettling.

Carnegie Medal for Writing
That They May Face the Rising Sun
Faber & Faber

That They May Face the Rising Sun

John McGahern

アイルランドの小さな共同体を背景にした叙情的な小説。個々の記憶や日常の細部を通して、家族や世代の変化、喪失感と郷愁が静かに浮かび上がる作品。

Irish Book Awards