Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
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Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale
In his gripping new work, Matthew Kneale takes us on a journey around today’s uncertain world. From England to South America, China to the Middle East, the United States to Africa, Kneale applies his gifts as a master storyteller, vividly capturing the lives of ordinary people as they struggle to live, and to do the right thing, often managing neither. From a smugly well-intentioned English family who leave their tour group in China to travel alone, and slowly becoming complicit in its violence, to a ploddingly respectable London lawyer who chances upon a stash of cocaine and discovers it offers the wealth and status he hungers for, to a self-doubting suicide bomber, Matthew Kneale transports readers across frontiers in an instant. He sets the foreign and the familiar side by side, and in doing so challenges our understanding of both. By turns painful, moving and wickedly funny, Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance gains momentum until the world seems to be revealed to us in a new way. This is a groundbreaking work by a master of the uncertainties of our time.
Matthew Kneale lives in Rome with his wife and two children. His bestselling novel English Passengers was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award . His other awards include the Somerset Maugham Prize (for Mr. Foreigner ) and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for Sweet Thames).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330435345 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330435345 |
| Title | Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance |
| Author | Matthew Kneale |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2005-03-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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