![]() ![]() Only cowards live by prisons and cold hangings. Somalis have got the right idea, you wrong someone and you're forced to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life unless you make amends. The Fortune Men is Nadifa Mohamed’s third novel, shortlisted for the 2021 Man Booker Prize. A seaman from British Somaliland residing in Cardiff, Mattan was. 'If only I could set fire to all your walls,' he says, inhaling deeply from the smouldering tobacco, 'I would burn this prison down and let everyone go free, whatever their crime, no one should steal their freedom. Mahmood Hussein Mattan was the last man to be executed by hanging in Cardiff, Wales, in 1952. ![]() despite everything, that it would come through, but now he pulls it out from the foil and clasps it between his lips. ![]() ![]() Their lies and evil end with me.' He had saved a cigarette to celebrate the reprieve, expecting. But I stand and claim my innocence so they have to finish me to protect themselves. If I had lost my mind and sat weeping in my own shit, maybe then they'd be happy to send me to a madhouse like they did with Khaireh. R ecently shortlisted for the 2021 Booker prize, Nadifa Mohamed’s third novel, The Fortune Men, is a fictionalised retelling. “They're doing this because they haven't broken me. ![]()
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