John Lanchester
Celebrated novelist John Lanchester (author of ,The Debt to Pleasure,) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. ,Itâ€™s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, Londonâ€”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 minderâ€”are receiving anonymous postcards reading â€œWe Want What You Have.â€ 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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