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'There are certain books that have the knack of getting under your skin. This is why George Bernard Shaw declared Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit to be a far more “seditious” text than Karl Marx’s Das Capital.
'What he was getting at is the power of books to work on your emotions. The intellect can be too cold an instrument to engender empathy, to bring people who are distant from you into your “circle of concern”. And it is precisely this, as philosopher Martha Nussbaum argues, that matters for the pursuit of social justice.
'In 2017, the Stella Prize judges have again come up with a shortlist of books that will engage your brain, but also your heart. They illuminate all the aspects of life that make us frail and vulnerable – sickness, dying, inequality – realities that many of us would prefer to ignore.' (Introduction)
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- Between a Wolf and a Dog 2016 single work novel
- The Hate Race : A Memoir 2016 single work autobiography
- An Isolated Incident 2016 single work novel
- The Museum of Modern Love 2016 single work novel
- Poum and Alexandre : A Paris Memoir 2016 single work biography
- Dying : A Memoir 2016 single work autobiography