Books by Paul Harding
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
🏆 Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Paul Harding's Faulkneresque debut novel was a surprise bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner. It tells the story of a father and son from New England, as recalled by the son on his deathbed.
“Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2009 debut Tinkers. This new book, his third, is a work of historical fiction inspired by the true story of Malaga, an island off the coast of Maine where former slaves made their homes alongside Irish immigrants and Civil War veterans. The self-sufficient, racially-integrated community was disbanded by the US government in 1911 when the residents were evicted in the name of public health. ‘Terrible how terribly good intentions turn out almost every time,’ as one character observes, prophetically—and sure enough this unique, rag-tag community is soon no more.” Read more...
The Best Novels of 2023: The Booker Prize Shortlist
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Interviews where books by Paul Harding were recommended
The Best Novels of 2023: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Cal Flyn
Every year, the judges for the Booker Prize read more than a hundred books that have been submitted by their publishers in the hope of being recognised by one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. The 2023 shortlist features a novel-in-stories, an Irish dystopia, and plenty of family drama. See the Booker Prize shortlist 2024.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels
Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a work of “distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” We’ve compiled a guide to the books that have won this prize since the turn of the millennium.
