Capital by John Lanchester

Capital by John Lanchester

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.

John Lanchester is the author of five novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Debt to Pleasure and Capital, as well as nonfiction books. His novels have won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and the E. M. Forster Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780393082074
ISBN 10	0393082075
Title	Capital
Author	John Lanchester
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2012-06-11
Number of pages	528
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