Bookends with Mattea Roach

Nadifa Mohamed imagines the life of a Somali man wrongfully executed in her novel The Fortune Men

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Somali-British writer Nadifa Mohamed's latest novel, The Fortune Men, is based on the true story of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali seaman who was executed in 1952 in Cardiff, Wales, for a murder he didn't commit. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Costa Best Novel Award.
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