"2010 WINNER. Follows the plight of Helmer, who resides on a Dutch farm with his father. His twin dies accidentally and Helmer encounters his girlfriend. About themes such as loneliness and isolation."
"2010 shortlist. In a bourgeois apartment building in Paris, we encounter Renée, an intelligent, philosophical... also Paloma, who has decided to commit suicide on her 13 birthday..."
"2010 shortlist. Starting as a refugee in Guldenberg, Germany, was tough enough, but for Bernhard Haber, whose family—led by his one-armed carpenter father—fled Breslau after the 1945 Soviet invasion.."
"2010 shortlist. Heller puts to pointed use her acute observations of human nature in her third novel, a satire of 1960s idealism soured in the early 21st century."
"2010 shortlist. 'Ramblers. Daft sods in pink and green hats. It wasn't even cold. They moved down the field swing-swaying like a line of drunks, addled with the air and the land, and the smell...'"
"2010 shortlist. An elegant variation on the parable of the prodigal son's return. The son is Jack Boughton, one of the eight children of Robert Boughton, the former Gilead, Iowa, pastor."
