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A billionaire currency trader drives across Manhattan in a limousine on a single day, watching his fortune and the world order disintegrate in real time.
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Trust
Four texts, a novel, a memoir, a ghostwriter's recollection and a diary, tell the story of a New York financier and his wife in the 1920s, and each version contradicts the last.
Zero K
A man visits his billionaire father at a remote desert compound where his stepmother is about to be cryogenically preserved, and the facility's promise of life after death unsettles them both.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
In a café in Lahore, a Pakistani man tells an American stranger about his years at Princeton and on Wall Street, and how he came to leave New York after 9/11, in a monologue full of menace.
The Glass Hotel
A bartender at a remote Vancouver Island hotel becomes the companion of the financier who owns it, and when his Ponzi scheme collapses the fallout scatters everyone it touched.
J R
An eleven-year-old boy on Long Island, starting from a school trip to the stock exchange and working from a pay phone, builds a vast paper empire, told almost entirely in unattributed dialogue.
Mao II
A reclusive novelist lets a photographer take his picture and is drawn out of hiding into a scheme to free a young poet held hostage in Beirut.
Behold the Dreamers
In 2007 Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem with his wife and son, lands a job as chauffeur to Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers.
The Stranger
A man in French Algeria kills an Arab on a beach for no particular reason and is condemned less for the murder than for his failure to cry at his mother's funeral.
Less Than Zero
A college student returns to 1980s Los Angeles and drifts through a world of cocaine, parties, and moral emptiness.
The Guest
Sent away by the older man she has been living with on Long Island, twenty-two-year-old Alex has a week until his Labor Day party, and she drifts from house to house among the rich, hoping to win him back.
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Artur Sammler, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust by climbing out of a mass grave, now in his seventies, watches the Upper West Side of the late 1960s through one good eye.
Asymmetry
Two stories that seem unconnected, a young editor's affair with a much older, famous writer and an Iraqi-American economist held at Heathrow airport, turn out to speak to each other.