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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 Humbling
Philip Roth revisits familiar themes of ageing and impotency in his latest tale about a tragically doomed actor who, in his mid-60s, discovers he can no longer act
Ransom
A work of immediacy, humanity and tenderness, David Malouf’s seventh novel that retells the ‘Iliad’ is as rewarding as its original
The Age of Orphans
Laleh Khadivi’s debut novel tells the melancholy tale of a Kurdish boy’s loss of home and identity, set against the birth of a new country
Without Saying Goodbye
Maryam Sachs’ eloquent prose gives a vivid impression of the protagonist’s character and memories, which makes the adulterous desire sensual rather than smutty
Astérix & Obélix’s Birthday
The packed pages of this 50th anniversary volume will delight devotees as the cast of Gauls dreamt up by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo still holds out against Roman invaders
The Lacuna
This relentless pop-cultural history lesson from Barbara Kingsolver explores lives and events – from the Mexican Revolution to the cold war – through the journals of a literary Forrest Gump
Under the Dome
Three decades in the making, Stephen King’s latest is a well-paced, gutsy tale of lives in a pressure cooker and the evil done by bad men convinced they have the best of intentions
Lustrum
Robert Harris’s novel centres on the rhetorician politician Marcus Tullius Cicero in the dwindling years of the Roman republic
Clisson and Eugénie
Napoleon Bonaparte’s tale of a young French general who forsakes conflict and worldly success to find happiness in love
The True Deceiver
Tove Jansson’s unsentimental – and often mischievous – novel of ideas asks whether it is better to be kind than to be truthful, especially for an artist
