Difference between revisions of "Orange Prize for Fiction 2012"
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| − | |summary= | + | |summary= Bea Nightingale's brother Marvin wants her - is haranguing her - to retrieve his errant son Julian from post-war Paris, to where he has decamped in an effort to escape parental control. Bea, a New York high school teacher, is an unlikely candidate for the role of rescuer - she and her brother have been estranged for the best part of twenty years. But she capitulates to his demands and sets off on a journey in which her presence will affect not only Julian, but his sister who also runs off to Paris, his girlfriend, a displaced Eastern European Jew, his mother (also escaping Marvin, but this time in a psychiatric facility) and Bea's own ex-husband Leo. |
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Revision as of 13:25, 23 March 2012
The Shortlist will be announced on 17 April with the awards ceremony on 30 May.
Longlist
