Forfatter fødeår: 1962
* 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 .
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.
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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... Læs mere
A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 SelectionGhost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.
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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 post-war boom... Læs mere
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Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 SelectionGhost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.
From the bestselling author of Capital comes this blackly funny page-turner - think the scripts of Jesse Armstrong meet Notes on a Scandal.