A week in December / Sebastian Faulks.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa:London : Hutchinson, 2009.Whakaahuatanga: 392 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780091794453 (hbk.)
- 0091794455 (hbk.)
- 9780091795153
- 823.914 22
- PR6056.A89 W44 2009
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tau tārua | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Stratford Fiction | Fiction | FAU (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | 1 | Wātea | A00605221 |
"London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days, we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and, a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop... The novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life. Greed, the dehumanising effects of the electronic age and the fragmentation of society are some of the themes... The writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet high, but the characters refuse to see it - and party on as though tomorrow is a dream."--Publisher description.
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