Description

In the writer of the best-selling Birdsong comes a strong book that melds the ethical weight of Dickens and the realism of Trollope using the spirit of Tom Wolfe. Birmingham: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven times we follow the lives of seven main figures: a hedge-fund administrator attempting to provide off the largest industry of his profession; an expert footballer lately came from Poland; a attorney with small work and an excessive amount of time for you to imagine; students that has been led astray by Islamist concept; a crack guide consumer; a schoolboy totally hooked on reality Television and genetically modified container; and a Pipe train motorist whose Circleline train ties these and numerous other lives together in a regular cycle. With bold ability and savage laughter, Per Week in Dec examines the complicated designs and crossings of contemporary metropolitan existence; whilst the book goes to its gripping climax, its figures are compelled, 1 by 1, to face the real nature of the planet they—and we all—inhabit.