This article in Shelf Awareness reported the finalists for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which celebrates the power of literature to promote peace. Winners will be announced on November 13th at a special ceremony in Dayton, Ohio. Nominated novels available from your Community Library include:
- The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee: Korean orphan June Han and former GI Hector Brennan are reunited by a plot that forces them to come to terms with mysterious secrets from their past.
- How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu: The son of Ethopian immigrants decides to retrace the journey his parents took just after they moved to America.
- Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste: After his physician father is jailed and his younger brother joins an underground resistance movement, Yonas prays to God for an end to the violence in Ethiopia on the eve of revolution in 1974.
- The Gendarme by Mark Mustian: Seen by those around him as a virtually senile nonagenarian, Emmet Conn is haunted by vivid memories of a past he and others deliberately worked to forget.
- Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne: When computer programmer Karim Issar creates a program that predicts oil futures, it improves his job prospects but raises moral problems.
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