Of Love & Hunger

A vibrant piece of fiction pulsating with events and emotions…Seems destined to be read a hundred years from now. —Martin Rubin Los Angeles Times Each house on Pepys Road an ordinary street in London has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths and plenty of laughter in between. But each of the street’s residents—a rich banker and his shopaholic wife a soccer prodigy from Senegal Pakistani shop owners a dying old woman and her graffitiartist son—is receiving a menacing postcard with a simple message We Want What You Have. Who is behind this What do they really want In Capital John Lanchester an elegant and wonderfully witty writer—New York Times delivers a warm and compassionate novel that captures the anxieties of our time—property values going up fortunes going down a potential terrorist around every corner—with an unforgettable cast of characters.