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Product DescriptionFrom the author of the bestselling songs of the birds is a powerful novel that the weight or morality of Dickens and Trollope’s satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe conscientious realism combines. London: The week before Christmas 2007. Over seven days, we followed the life attempts of seven main characters: a hedge fund manager, put out the biggest trade of his career, a professional footballer, who had come recently from Poland to speculate a young lawyer with little work and too much time , a student who was hooked captured by the theory of the Islamists, a hack literary critic and a student of reality TV and GM pot and a driver on the Circle Line tube to the train deceived these countless other lives together in a loop all day . With skill and daring, wild humor, a week in December, explores the complexity of situations and passages of the modern urban life, like the novel gripping climax, characters are forced, one by one, to t face. . . More>>
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This book combines satire on modern society, a satire of critical literaery, a discussion about the financial crisis, a thriller, and even a novel. Although set in London, it could be just as well have been anywhere, everywhere, at least greedy bankers and potential terrorists. It is the best novel I read in many years. Rating: 5.5
One week in December, is a tour de force that provides both high entertainment value and provocative ideas. It is also beautiful, “just published” novel I read in the last five years. First the show: The novel presents a dozen main characters (and another twenty secondary school students) participated in four major strands linked together (and a handful of secondary), to develop and converge in a week in December – - Specifically, 16 December to 22 December , 2008. The interior is modern, multicultural London (where now 75% of births to mothers who were not born in the United Kingdom). The main lines of the story was concocted a global financial services Coup to extort billions of pounds for a hedge fund for the price of a large bank in the United Kingdom and the financial burden of millions of pensioners to a daily allowance of workers, African agriculture, and (of course) the taxpayers Islamic terrorist conspiracy and descent into psychosis by the 16-year-old son of a billionaire financier with easy access to 700 pounds of marijuana for GM, and an unlikely romance and touching. The story grows and skillfully weaves these stories together side, creating an ever faster as the week unfolds boring and the stories the way to its climax. He does everything for a novel hard to put bas.Maintenant for ideas: one week in December, examined topics such as Islam and terrorism, the Alice in Wonderland world of high finance in the last thirty years with its exotic financial instruments and unbridled greed, the penetration of virtual reality of the Internet in the real world of “True Life,” schizophrenia, the dumbing down of education in West and general rudeness and superficiality of the “culture” in the United Kingdom (and this list represents only the tip of the iceberg). For example, in relation to Islam, the more thought Faulks follows characters in the novel precipitation as follows: “As soon as the first theological debate once and for all, decided that the Koran literally and in every syllable of the word of God without an intermediary, was then all Muslims, fundamentalist by definition. He was by nature different than Judaism or Christianity, it was naturally and without any apology, a fundamentalist religion. It of course, an activist from a world of difference between “basic” and “- much less “aggressive”, but the truth remains persistently: that is so pure, so noble and uncompromising Islam limited the kind of thinking, he could claim. “Another example to do with the concept of the knowledge society and education:” In pre-modern societies was in the order of the people to keep things simple, what you have learned not to lose. “But the twentieth century, Western society, particularly in Europe, had the goal of universal education and a net profit of knowledge between all passed down from generation to generation. * *” And it is now abandoned as a goal. * From now on it is to be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in the fourteenth century London and modern Iran, however, is that scarce resources when the villagers while trying too far back, not from lack of. But we here in England, it was a positive decision. We have decided to do less. “Playing week in December is almost effortless. It is written with rhythm and interlaced with the spirit and compassion. Some of the characters are stereotypes in nature, but it is probably the inevitable by-product of the mode of parody, often at the forefront in the Roman ., I doubt that the novel is the impact it has twenty years he has probably not qualify as “great literature”. But it’s also fun and exciting than I could expect a very timely novel. Rating: 5.5
A set is packaged in one week in December. High finance, terrorism, and even humor, all leading to a very entertaining and informative reading. There is much about the inner workings of the bourse.Nous have a new complex of contemporary London that you are wiser to read it to have leaves. Rating: 5.5
A week DécembrePar Sebastian FaulksPublié by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New YorkRéminiscence Paul Haggis for Crash in 2004, a week in December is a dark, raw, voyeuristic insight into the life of several weeks with each other on a London December. With more than seven main characters and many small, derives its momentum through the scenario extracts of subsistence in the senseless fragmented the mundane details and misconduct égarés.écrit Faulks Faulks, while clever, is both bitter and overly broad. I must admit it was a great willingness to exist in each chapter of the so pointless and only in disappointment. Unlike Crash, there was no goal, no “ah-ha” moment that everything in a moment of ‘understanding’, or enlightenment. The story ends with no easy redemption, or any recognition reproche.Si you have the goodness to your rose-colored glasses, and the desire for a shameless dose of reality may be the novel for you. If on the other side, you know you live in the world to read every day and feel like a little hope, gratitude and inspiration in your saving, I recommend you stay away from this there. Rating: 5.3
A novel about current events rather stereotyped. The characters and plot are, the book has a bold, if a student tries, the requirement of teachers to 10 pages to do justice. Then ends abruptly with a whimper. Read books authors thank generous and skip this novel. I feel cheated. Rating: 5.1