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Capital, June 2012
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I.O.U., September 2010
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W.W. Norton & Company
June 2012
On Sale: June 11, 2012
528 pages
ISBN: 0393082075
EAN: 9780393082074
Kindle: B007HX8CKI
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Fiction
From the best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a
sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis.
Celebrated novelist John Lanchester (“an elegant and
wonderfully witty writer”—New York Times) returns with an
epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It’s
2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman
Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road,
London—a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying
of a brain tumor and her graffiti-artist grandson, Pakistani
shop owners and a shadowy refugee who works as the meter
maid, the young soccer star from Senegal and his minder—are
receiving anonymous postcards reading “We Want What You
Have.” Who is behind it? What do they want? Epic in scope
yet intimate, capturing the ordinary dramas of very
different lives, this is a novel of love and suspicion, of
financial collapse and terrorist threat, of property values
going up and fortunes going down, and of a city at a moment
of extraordinary tension.
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