Capital

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/11/2012
ISBN: 9780393082074
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.70d

Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2012 pg. 66
Booklist 03/15/2012 pg. 18
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2012 pg. 60
Library Journal 04/01/2012 pg. 72
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2012
Shelf Awareness 06/15/2012
Entertainment Weekly 06/22/2012 pg. 70
New York Times Book Review 07/15/2012 pg. 1
New York Times Book Review 07/22/2012 pg. 26
BookPage 06/01/2012