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On Canaan’s Side

by Sebastian Barry

Publication: First published 2011
ISBN: 9781441793805, 9780571276257, 9780571274703

Walter Scott 2012 · Winner

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Een 89-jarige vrouw, die al vanaf haar 16e in Amerika woont, ziet in de dood van haar kleinzoon aanleiding om haar herinneringen te noteren.

Prize history

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
2012

Winner
Man Booker Prize
2011

Longlist

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2012 shortlist

Half-Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan
Pure

Andrew Miller
The Quality of Mercy

Barry Unsworth
The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt
The Stranger’s Child

Alan Hollinghurst

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The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

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Half-Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan
Jamrach’s Menagerie

Carol Birch
Pigeon English

Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops

A. D. Miller
The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt

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