Done reading.
Not abook about money in the strictest sense. John Lanchester’s latest novel, ”Capital” *, is set in London and follows the lives of residents of Pepys Road leading up to and during the financial crisis of 2008.
There are many different characters ranging from a professional banker and his wife to the Pakistani owner of a corner store to a graffiti artist modeled on banksy to a Polish handyman and an immigrant traffic warden from Zimbabwe. Lanchester doesn’t write a fast-paced story but he gets into the heads of all his characters and writes with deep empathy and profundidad.
* The book contains the phrase “proper manky” meaning something close to the right kind of dirty, not cleaned up or tarted up.