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A review by lambsears
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
3.0
A well-written novel based entirely around the real lives involved in the arrest for murder, the false imprisonment and execution of Mahmood Mattan, an innocent man, in Cardiff, in the 1950s.
While it told me much about the rich multiculturalism of Wales at the time (I certainly had no idea of the cultural diversity of this region), it is also bleak, claustrophobic and deeply sad, even more so once I finished it and googled the rest of the story. Mattan's family went on to endure much discrimination, and the conviction was not overturned for 40 years.
While it told me much about the rich multiculturalism of Wales at the time (I certainly had no idea of the cultural diversity of this region), it is also bleak, claustrophobic and deeply sad, even more so once I finished it and googled the rest of the story. Mattan's family went on to endure much discrimination, and the conviction was not overturned for 40 years.