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See Free Stuff for Up-to-date Awards Lists you may copy. The Orange Prize for Fiction is awarded each summer to the best novel written in English (and published in the United Kingdom) in the previous year by a woman of any nationality: the award is a bronze sculpture and £30,000. It was established in 1996 by Orange PLC, a British telecommunications company. Follow the links on the titles below to full book reviews. The links in the green boxes lead you to Amazon.com. 2007 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In 1960s Nigeria, two Igbo sisters and their families experience civil war that leads to the heroic attempt to form the independent republic of Biafra. See my detailed summary of Half of a Yellow Sun and review of Half of a Yellow Sun. Buy at Amazon: Half of a Yellow Sun 2006 On Beauty by Zadie Smith. The families of two feuding professors fight, flirt, and deal with being black people in the predominantly white neighborhood that has grown up around the exclusive college. See my review of On Beauty. Buy at Amazon: On Beauty 2005 We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. A woman writes letters to her husband trying to piece together the circumstances that made their teenaged son shoot and kill several classmates. See my review of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Buy at Amazon: We Need to Talk About Kevin 2004 Small Island by Andrea Levy. A white English couple and the black Jamaican couple who room with them share a complicated life in 1948 England. This also won the best of the Oranges prize in 2006 for the past ten years of fiction by women. Buy at Amazon: Small Island 2003 Property by Valerie Martin. In 1828, the wife of a corrupt Louisiana plantation owner must face a slave uprising in this cooly minimalist novel about bondage, cruelty, and escape. Read my review of Property. Buy at Amazon: Property 2002 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. An opera-singer, a Japanese translator, an impoverished priest, and several foreign dignitaries are taken hostage at a dinner party in an unnamed South American country, and get attached to their unusual captors in the weeks that follow. Read my review of Bel Canto. Buy at Amazon: Bel Canto 2001 The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville. Two awkward outsiders, a male engineer and a female museum curator, meet on a bridge project in a tiny Australian town and fall into an uneasy courtship. Buy at Amazon: The Idea of Perfection 2000 When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant. In 1946, a naive hairdresser who feels more British than Jewish immigrates from England to Palestine and struggles with the foreign culture and dangerous surroundings. Buy at Amazon: When I Lived in Modern Times 1999 A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne. An adult woman remembers the summer of 1972 when she harmed an innocent. See my review of A Crime in the Neighborhood. Buy at Amazon: A Crime in the Neighborhood 1998 Larry's Party by Carol Shields. Twenty years in the life of a Canadian male show his life echoing his career (from florist to designer of hedge-mazes) in escalating complexity. Buy at Amazon: Larry's Party 1997 Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. A boy haunted by the Nazis' destruction of his family is saved by a Greek archaeologist and grows up to be an accomplished poet whose writings inspire a young man who is himself the son of Holocaust survivors. Buy at Amazon: Fugitive Pieces 1996 A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore. Just before the First World War, a brother and sister grow up in a crumbling English manor and must break free of their mutual obsession with each other in order to join the outside world. Buy at Amazon: A Spell of Winter |
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Noteworthy Links: Wonderquest - Science Q/A! The Connection - Tech blog! Author site - John the Eunuch Historical Mystery series, Cozy Mystery List for all your cozy mystery needs, Obsidian Bookshelf - reviews of gay-themed fiction. |
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THE ORANGE PRIZE
