Surprisingly enough Paul Harding has won the Pulitzer Fiction Prize (When Europe will have its own literature and press recognitions???) 2010 for his first novel, Tinkers, with a sales amount of hardly 500 units. The list of writers previously awarded is full with well respected names such us: Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy or John Updike. Remarkable enough is also the fact that Tinkers has been published by an independent publishing company, as it was the case of A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.
As acknowledged by the Pulitzer Award of Fiction Reviewing Board, Tinkers is “a powerful
celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality”.
Surprising and hazardous, it is a master piece about time and memories which grows gradually but steadily, and turns powerfully unbeatable at the time to recover a past overwhelmed with objects, vibrations, places and and unpardonably beautiful countryside.
Martina Schmieder
