The mark and the void
By: Paul Murray
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton UK; Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780241146668; 9780141968940; 9780241953860; 9780241145128
Subjects: Avarice; Investment banking; Deception; Authors; Fiction; Investment bankers
Description: This is a comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies. Workaholic French banker Claude is so busy making money from Ireland's economic crisis he has no time for romance. Then he meets mysterious writer Paul, who says he wants to put Claude in a book. Next thing Claude knows, he's falling in love with beautiful Greek waitress, Augustina. But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on Claude's side at all? And why is Claude's new boss staking all of their money on losing propositions? Is anyone in this whole town telling the truth?