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2009 FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
The winner
Liaquat Ahamed’s ‘Lords of Finance’ swept away a strong field of finalists for the 2009 prize
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The Original Of Laura
Vladimir Nabokov’s last and previously unpublished novel – an ingenious story about confronting death – is further proof of the Russian writer’s literary talent
The Passport
Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller’s first novel is a poetic chronicle of one family’s desperate attempt to flee Ceausescu’s Romania
Happy Families
Carlos Fuentes’ tales of domestic iconoclasm, father-child relationships and civil unrest provide an outraged commentary on Mexico’s institutionalised corruption
Spade & Archer
This enjoyably navigated prequel by Joe Gores traces investigator Sam Spade’s career before it reached the case featured in Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon’
Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill
In Dimitri Verhulst’s fable of enduring passion, a woman in a Flemish village mourns the death of her composer husband, finds solace in a dog and waits 20 years to make a cello for her dead lover
Your Face Tomorrow 3
In the final volume of Javier Marías’s spy trilogy, Spaniard Jacques Deza begins to question the morality of his profession while working for a shadowy London agency as an interpreter of character
A Dead Hand
A writer travelling in Calcutta gets dragged into a murder case after receiving a letter from a beautiful woman asking his help in this latest novel from Paul Theroux
The Others
Writing under the nom de plume Siba al-Harez, an unnamed narrator gives a raw account of her relationship with a peer in a girls’ school in Saudi Arabia
Esther’s Inheritance
From Sándor Márai comes a novella about an impoverished old maid who receives a visitor from her tumultuous past
The Children’s Hours
Richard Zimler and Raša Sekulović aggregate a collection of stories touching on various topics from immigration to bullying
