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The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around Pepys Road is turned upside down by the financial crash and all of its residents' lives change beyond recognition over the course of the next year. From the bestselling author of Whoops! and How to Speak Money comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth.
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Capital, John Lanchester
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- Capital
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Lanchester
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0571290310
- ISBN13
- 9780571290314
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Art, Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Relationships, Literary Fiction, Children, British Literature, Death, Society, England, Secrets, Great Britain, Africa, English Literature, Marriage, Mysterious, Mysteries, Football, London, Satire, Money, Hope, Fate, Present, Greed, Immigrants, Financial Crisis, Capital, Neighborhood Relations
- First published
- 2012
- Original title
- Capital
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around Pepys Road is turned upside down by the financial crash and all of its residents' lives change beyond recognition over the course of the next year. From the bestselling author of Whoops! and How to Speak Money comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth.