Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna beats Wolf Hall to Orange prize
American novelist's epic novel holds off Man Booker winner Hilary Mantel to take £30,000 Orange prize for fiction
An epic, ambitious novel that straddles the Mexican revolution and the crazed communist witch-hunts of 1950s America was tonight named winner of this year's Orange prize for fiction.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 9 June, 2010
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