{"product_id":"capital-john-lancester","title":"Capital (John Lancester)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TOP TEN  \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW AN AWARD-WINNING NETFLIX SERIES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Effortlessly brilliant . . . hugely moving and outrageously funny.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A treat to read.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The great London novel of the twenty-first century.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brimming with perception, humane empathy and relish . . . a capital achievement.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning adaptation of \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e is now available on Netflix: a moving, funny, and keenly insightful story of London on the brink of the financial crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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: \u003ci\u003eWe Want What You Have\u003c\/i\u003e. Who is behind it? What do they want?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the mystery of the postcards deepens, the world around them is turned upside down by the financial crash. A state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching truth, \u003ci\u003eCapital \u003c\/i\u003etracks a year in the life of the Pepys Road residents as their lives are changed beyond recognition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Lanchester's book \u003ci\u003eCapital \u003c\/i\u003ewas a \u003ci\u003eSunday TImes\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller w\/c 19-02-2012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eJohn Lanchester was born in Hamburg, grew up in Hong Kong, and lives in London. He has written six works of fiction and four of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the E. M. Forster Award and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into twenty-five languages. The television mini-series of his novel \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e won an International Emmy Award. He is a contributing editor to the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003eand a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 592 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65894507086173,"sku":"K068742133","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/6874213300001A.jpg?v=1789144268","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/capital-john-lancester","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}