The Fortune Men (Paperback)

'Chilling and utterly compelling, The Fortune Men shines an essential light on a much-neglected period of our national life.' - Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland

'A writer of great humanity and intelligence. Nadifa Mohamed deeply understands how lives are shaped both by the grand sweep of history and the intimate encounters of human beings.' - Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire

'The Fortune Men describes how innocence is forced to justify itself before gross injustice. A novel of tremendous power, compassion and subtlety, it feels unsettlingly timely.' - Pankaj Mishra

'In her determined, nuanced and compassionate exposure of injustice, Mohamed gives the terrible story of Mattan's life and death meaning and dignity.' - The Guardian

'The Fortune Men confirms Mohamed as a literary star of her generation. When Mohamed's prose - simple and full of soul - illuminated him, Mahmood emerges as a beacon of humour, hope and endurance.' - The Observer

'Based on real events, Mohamed's novel is panoramic in its scope and rich in period atmosphere, vividly tracing the desperate livers of the victim and the accused.' - Mail on Sunday

'The Fortune Men is a novel on fire, a restitution of justice in prose.' - Financial Times

'The Fortune Men is that rare novel that breaks your heart and, in so doing, gives you life. Nadifa Mohamed is a revelation - she writes with the fierce compassionate lightning of a truth-teller, lays bare the ghastly colonial condition that afflicts so many of us, where truth cannot overcome injustice. If a novel can be an avenger then The Fortune Men is the one we've all been waiting for.' - Junot Diaz

'Mohamed is . . . intent on expanding her world, listing its teeming varieties and presenting a wealth of character and language.' - TLS

'Evocative and enlightening.' - New Statesman

'A moving work.' - The Week, Novel of the Week

'A moving and captivating tale of survival and hope in a war-torn country, and confirms Mohamed's stature as one of Britain's best young novelists.' - Stylist on The Orchard of Lost Souls

'It's unbearably wrenching . . . Mohamed makes the outrage at the book's heart blazingly unignorable by inhabiting Mattan's point of view, a bold endeavour pulled off to powerful effect. Passages from the barbaric climax are still echoing in my head, even as I type.' - Daily Mail

'Mixing startling lyricism and sheer brutality, this is a significant, affecting book.' - The Guardian, on Black Mamba Boy

'Just as Half of a Yellow Sun drew out the little documented dramas of the Biafran war, Mohamed describes an East Africa under Mussolini's rule . . . such an accomplished first novel.' - The Independent, on Black Mamba Boy

'A first novel of elegance and beauty... a stunning debut.' - The Times, on Black Mamba Boy

'A haunting and intimate portrait of the lives of women in war-torn Somalia.' - New York Journal of Books, on The Orchard of Lost Souls

'With the unadorned language of a wise, clear-eyed observer, Nadifa Mohamed has spun an unforgettable tale.' - Taiye Selasi, on The Orchard of Lost Souls