A former columnist for the London Jewish Chronicle won the $7,750 Whitbread first-novel prize. Norman Lebrecht’s “The Song of Names,” about two Jewish youths in London during World War II, will now compete against the winners of the Whitbread’s four other categories for the $40,000 book of the year prize.
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