Capital
By: John Lanchester
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780771046711
Subjects: City dwellers; Fiction; Life change events; Threats; Investment bankers; Financial crises; Urban ecology (Sociology); Social conditions
Description: Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the capital. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the city. Freddy Kano, teenage football sensation, has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. Elsewhere in the Capital, Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. This story follows the lives and fortunes of a group of people in London that become connected in unforeseen ways.
Notes: "A novel"--Cover.