John Lanchester

"The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and attack constantly. Failure will result in death or a fate perhaps worse: being put to sea and made an Other himself. Beset by cold, loneliness, and fear, Kavanagh tries to fulfill his duties to his demanding Captain and Sergeant, even as he grows closer to his fellow Defenders. And then the Others attack.... Acclaimed British novelist John Lanchester, "a writer of rare intelligence" (Los Angeles Times), delivers a taut dystopian novel that blends the most compelling issues of our time--rising waters, rising fear, rising political division--into a suspenseful story of love, trust, and survival"--

The Wall

From the best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, comes a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis.

Capital

An impeccable, epicurean Englishman and lifelong Francophile recounts his past pleasures in Provence, in a meditation on food, vodka, and restaurant-going that becomes a dark satire on hedonism, in a critically acclaimed novel by the former restaurant critic of the London Observer. Reprint.

A Novel

The Debt to Pleasure

John Lanchester's brilliant survey of the current financial crisis explains how the booming global economy collapsed seemingly overnight.

Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay

I.O.U.

Discusses how the world of finance and economics really works, from the terms and conditions of personal checking accounts to the deliberate concealments of bankers, and explains hundreds of common economic terms.

What the Money People Say--and What It Really Means

How to Speak Money

Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Wall.

And Other Stories

Reality

Reality and Other Stories

The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around Pepys Road is turned upside down by the financial crash and all of its residents' lives change beyond recognition over the course of the next year. From the bestselling author of Whoops! and How to Speak Money comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth.

Capital * Ome *

Alle Bewohner der Pepys Road suchen nach ihrem Glück: Roger Yount ist ein erfolgreicher Banker - mit zwei Kindern und einer verwöhnten Ehefrau. Dass er nicht die erwartete 1 Million Pfund Jahresprämie erhält, stürzt die Familie in eine Krise. Nebenan zieht die senegalesische Fussballhoffnung Freddy Kamo mit seinem Vater ein - wird ihm der internationale Durchbruch in einem Premier-League-Club gelingen? Petunia Howe lebte schon in der Pepys Road, als diese noch eine einfache Arbeiterstrasse war. Pakistanische Kioskbesitzer stehen unter Terrorverdacht, die nigerianische Politesse ohne Arbeitserlaubnis schreibt Strafzettel und der polnische Handwerker Zbigniew liebt die Frauen, und die Frauen lieben ihn. An einem ganz normalen Tag liegt bei allen stolzen Eigenheimbesitzern dieser Strasse eine merkwürdige Nachricht im Briefkasten: "Wir wollen, was ihr habt." Ein Roman voller Mitgefühl, Humor und Protagonisten, die man nicht mehr missen möchte. Ein grosser unterhaltsamer Gesellschaftsroman, in 20 Sprachen übersetzt, der ein mitfühlendes, humorvolles und hochaktuelles Panorama der Gegenwart über die Top-Themen "Schuldenkrise" und "Gentrifizierung" bietet. John Lanchester, geboren 1967 in Hamburg, wuchs im Fernen Osten auf und war nach seiner Ausbildung in England als Lektor beim Verlag Penguin Books tätig, ehe er Redakteur der "London Review of Books" wurde. Daneben war er für zahlreiche Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie "Granta" und "The New Yorker" tätig sowie als Restaurantkritiker für "The Observer" und Kolumnist für "The Daily Telegraph"

Roman

Kapital

Die Mauer

Follows Tom Stewart, a young Englishman, as he arrives in Hong Kong in 1935 from the intrigue of the 1930s through the Japanese occupation to the present day, sharing a story of forbidden love and ultimate redemption.

Fragrant Harbor

There's probably a word in German for that feeling you get when you can understand something while it's being explained to you, but lose hold of the explanation as soon as it stops. A lot of writing about the credit crunch has that effect. This title makes it possible for all of us to grasp how we found ourselves in this predicament.

Whoops!

'It's Hong Kong', she said. 'Heung gong. Fragrant harbour'. Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; the post-war boom; the growth of the Triads; and the hand over of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the world's great cities and John Lanchester's finest book to date.

Fragrant Harbour

Il muro

Antonio-Prometeo Moya Valle

The prize-winning author of The Debt to Pleasure and Fragrant Harbor describes his atypical youth as the son of an international banker and former nun, the loving protective family shell he needed to overcome in order to mature, and the secrets that overshadowed his parents' lives.

A Love Story

Family Romance

Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years.

A man who has settled into a safe, ordinary suburban life wakes one day to find himself "sacked"--fired and cast adrift to re-discover and re-invent himself.

Mr. Phillips

Money is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elite can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffling. Above all, the language of money is the language of power - power in the hands of the same economic elite. Now John Lanchester, bestselling author of Capital and Whoops! sets out to decode the world of finance for all of us, explaining everything from high-frequency trading and the World Bank to the difference between bullshit and nonsense. As funny as it is devastating, How To Speak Money is a primer and a polemic. It's a reference book you'll find yourself reading in one sitting. And it gives you everything you need to demystify the world of high finance - the world that dominates how we all live now.

* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year * * LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 * 'Masterly . . . A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' Guardian 'A 1984 for our times.' Daily Express Kavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has to do two years of this. 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and will never have to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. But what if something did happen – if the Others came, if he had to fight for his life? Thrilling and heartbreaking, The Wall is about a troubled world you will recognise as your own – and about what might be found when all is lost. The Wall was longlisted for the Booker Prize in July 2019.

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