2000 Fiction Finalists
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie
New York, USA: Atlantic Monthly Press
A compelling collection of nine darkly humorous short
stories that offers a no-holds-barred look at the lives of Native Americans
on and off the reservation.
The Hero's Walk
by Anita Rau Badami
Toronto, Canada: Knopf Canada
UK: Bloomsbury (London)
USA: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
A poignant slice-of-life tale focusing on a disenchanted
copywriter whose Canadian-born grandaughter unexpectedly comes to live
with his truculant family in a small town on the Bay of Bengal.
The Years with Laura Díaz
by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Alfred MacAdam
New York, USA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
London, UK: Bloomsbury
A magnificant epic novel spanning several decades of
20th century Mexico colorfully portrayed through Fuentes's feisty,
complex heroine, Laura Dëaz.
The Australian Fiancé
by Simone Lazaroo
Sydney, Australia: Picador
A poetic fictional memoir of a Eurasian woman's failed
attempt to begin life anew in Australia, "the land of forgetting," following
the Japanese occupation in Singapore.
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2000 Nonfiction Finalists
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert Bix
USA: HarperCollins
A provocative and well-documented political biography
of one of the 20th century's most enigmatic figures, presenting a revised
interpretation of Hirohito's role in World War II.
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the
Khmer Rouge
by Chanrithy Him
USA: W.W. Norton, 2000
The searing memoir of a woman who was 10 years old
when the Khmer Rouge began the reign of terror that turned Cambodia
upside down and left at least a million dead.
Ladder to the Clouds: Intrigue and Tradition
in Chinese Rank
by Beverley Jackson and David Hugus
USA: Ten Speed Press, 2000
A lavishly illustrated and entertaining look at Imperial Chinese society
through an imagined biography and analysis of the embroidered squares
that indicated rank in the Chinese system of government.
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American
People
by Helen Zia
USA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000
An engrossing account by a skilled journalist of the
rise of political consciousness among Asian Americans and their struggles
to overcome racism and discrimination.
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