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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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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 (βan elegant and wonderfully witty writerββNew York Times) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. Itβs 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, Londonβa 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 minderβare receiving anonymous postcards reading βWe Want What You Have.β 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.
 Media BuzzAll Things Considered - June 8, 2012
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