![]() ![]() The list is completed by Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love, set in the aftermath of the civil war in Sierra Leone, and US writer Nicole Krauss's Great House. Obreht recently featured as the youngest member of New Yorker magazine's "20 under 40" club of writers it considers the most talented of their generation.ĭonoghue's story of a mother and son imprisoned for years in a single room, resonant of the Josef Fritzl case, is the best-known book on the list. The other debut novelists on the list are the former teacher Emma Henderson for Grace Williams Says it Loud and Serbian-American Téa Obreht for The Tiger's Wife. ![]() It makes them essential, riveting and charismatic books." She added: "All of them really deal with immensely serious and in some ways quite dark subjects, but the luminosity of the writing makes them more than bearable. Hughes, a historian and broadcaster, said the subjects were undoubtedly serious but all six were "written with such a lightness of touch" to make them extremely readable. Also striking are the big, difficult subjects the six books tackle, including abuse in a care home, civil war, and almost unimaginable torture in Emma Donoghue's Room, a book last year shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. ![]()
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