The shortlist for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced today.
There are six finalists:
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
This is a tale
of grief and jealousy set in the south-western Nigerian state of Osun. Society resolutely demands children of Yejide,
but two years of her marriage have resulted in only failure.
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Overnight, the balance of a power – both metaphorically and literally – shifts to teenage women across the world, who suddenly gain the ability to kill by mere touch.
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
World War II is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End
teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been
suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium to learn the way of a
patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force
officers, a car salesman, a mysterious German woman and an American
merchant seaman.
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
The novel
is a portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery.
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Neve, a
wife in her mid-30s, teases apart the strands of incident that have led her to
the uneasy, compromised calm of the now.
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
The novel
tracks the interwoven lives of three Chinese musical prodigies from the
foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949 through to the present day. See my review
of this Canadian book at http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2016/10/review-of-do-not-say-we-have-nothing-by.html.
The winner
of the £30,000 prize will be announced on June 7.
For the
longlist of 16 books, see http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2017/03/baileys-womens-prize-longlist.html.
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