6/10/2023 0 Comments The fortune men review![]() ![]() When Lily is murdered one March evening in her shop, her throat brutally slashed while her sister and niece prepared dinner in the adjoining apartment, the police immediately start looking for a black man Lily’s young niece reported seeing a dark man in the shop doorway around the same time. The picture painted in this book is of a town divided, disparate communities existing alongside one another, but with violence and antipathy always beneath the surface, and often above it. She and her sister were themselves immigrants, Jews who escaped the growing Nazi threat in mainland Europe, and they too experienced discrimination and abuse. Lily Volpert was a middle-aged shopkeeper in the town. For Mattan this was made worse by the fact that he married a local woman, Laura Williams, and they had three sons. ![]() ![]() There was already a significant immigrant population in the area, including other Somalis, but they still faced discrimination and racial abuse. Mahmood Mattan was a Somali merchant seaman who came to Britain to escape poverty in his homeland and settled in Tiger Bay, Cardiff. The Fortune Men is a fictionalised account of a true story about the last man to be hanged in Cardiff in 1952. The rest of this review contains spoilers. ![]()
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