num_pages: 224
description: A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he's always hungered for. A salesman in Africa gets caught up in a riot, and a Palestinian suicide bomber has a moment of self-doubt. Kneale transports readers across continents in a nanosecond, reaching to the heart of faraway societies with rare perceptiveness. With wry humor and razor-sharp satire, these twelve thought-provoking stories illuminate the moral uncertainty of our time.
language: English
title: Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
titlecomplete: Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
genres: 21st Century, Philosophy, Fiction, Short Stories, British Literature
ratings_count: 307
publisher: Anchor