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Barry Unsworth

Biography

Barry Unsworth

Barry Unsworth, who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel. He lives in Italy.

Barry Unsworth

Books by Barry Unsworth

The Ruby in Her Navel: A Novel
by Barry Unsworth

Set in the Middle Ages during the brief yet glittering rule of the Norman kings, The Ruby in Her Navel is a tale in which the conflicts of the past portend the present. The novel opens in Palermo, in which Latin and Greek, Arab and Jew live together in precarious harmony. But the peace and prosperity of the kingdom is being threatened, internally as well as externally.