Capital: A NovelFrom the best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis. 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 28 |
Section 2 | 44 |
Section 3 | 68 |
Section 4 | 82 |
Section 5 | 110 |
Section 6 | 140 |
Section 7 | 170 |
Section 8 | 178 |
Section 26 | 318 |
Section 27 | 346 |
Section 28 | 352 |
Section 29 | 356 |
Section 30 | 360 |
Section 31 | 364 |
Section 32 | 374 |
Section 33 | 376 |
Section 9 | 182 |
Section 10 | 194 |
Section 11 | 198 |
Section 12 | 204 |
Section 13 | 216 |
Section 14 | 220 |
Section 15 | 232 |
Section 16 | 236 |
Section 17 | 240 |
Section 18 | 250 |
Section 19 | 254 |
Section 20 | 260 |
Section 21 | 276 |
Section 22 | 286 |
Section 23 | 296 |
Section 24 | 300 |
Section 25 | 306 |
Section 34 | 386 |
Section 35 | 392 |
Section 36 | 396 |
Section 37 | 418 |
Section 38 | 426 |
Section 39 | 432 |
Section 40 | 442 |
Section 41 | 446 |
Section 42 | 452 |
Section 43 | 480 |
Section 44 | 484 |
Section 45 | 490 |
Section 46 | 498 |
Section 47 | 502 |
Section 48 | 508 |
Section 49 | 524 |
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