The Fortune Men

by Nadifa Mohamed

Book Overview

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - Based on a true event, this novel is "a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system" (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress).

In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593534360
• ISBN13: 9780593534366
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"