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About the Book

In his gripping new work, Matthew Kneale, author of the highly praised English Passengers, takes us around today's world, into the lives of ordinary people as they struggle to live, and to do the right thing, sometimes managing neither. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer who chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he hungers for. A well-intentioned family on holiday in China who collide with the ruthless side of the country, and slowly become complicit in its violence. A salesman in Africa caught up in a riot that turns his life upside down. A self-doubting suicide bomber. Matthew Kneale takes us on a journey from England to Ethiopia, from Colombia to the Middle East, surprising us afresh as he crosses each frontier. As the book gains momentum, tense, funny, and always compassionate, it makes us see our world in a new way. Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance is a remarkable, powerful book, by of a master of the uncertainties of our time.

About the Author :
Matthew Kneale lives in Rome with his wife and two children. His bestselling novel English Passengers was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award . His other awards include the Somerset Maugham Prize (for Mr. Foreigner ) and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for Sweet Thames).

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"That the [stories] evoke responses ranging from surprise and laughter to shock and horror is testament to the skill of a first-rate storyteller." --"The Gazette" (Montreal) "Kneale . . . has a gift for spinning whole cloth when it comes to settings, [without] a loose thread in the lot." --"The Globe and Mail" "Kneale . . . has produced a series of compelling narrative jaunts which have a kind of licensed freedom of thought." --"The Observer "(UK) Praise for "English Passengers," winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2000, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize: "English Passengers is what fiction ought to be: ambitious, narrative-driven, with a story and a quest we don't mind going on. On page after page I found myself laughing or nodding or simply envious. --Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Bruce Chatwin: A Biography "A robust intellectual entertainment: a comic sea-adventure, survival tale and quest for the Garden of Eden all rolled into one." --"The Globe and Mail" "Every page fizzes with linguistic invention, and the interweaving of high comedy with dramatic terror is expertly handled." --"The Guardian" "Sometimes a book comes along so full of wit and charm that it makes you glad you learned to read." --"Houston Chronicle"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780330435345
  • Publisher: Pan MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Picador
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Weight: 414 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0330435345
  • Publisher Date: 04 Mar 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 135 mm


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