Christina Stead

House of All Nations

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The devious world of international finance comes alive in Christina Stead's enthralling epic about a ruthless bank director in 1930s ParisPraised as a work of extraordinary talent by the New York Times, Christina Stead's ambitiously layered House of All Nations is an engrossing satire of wealth and manipulation. Set in an elite European bank in the 1930s, Stead's epic spans the interwar years of a money-hungry Paris. Jules Bertillon, the distrustful and unpredictable bank director, sees every national disaster-including war-as an opportunity for riches. Adored by his clients for his ability to rake in staggering profits, Bertillon leaves no o… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4532-6520-8
EAN: 9781453265208
Produktnummer: 17907990
Verlag: Open Road Media
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 768 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'595 KB

Über den Autor

Christina Stead (1902-1983) was an Australian writer regarded as one of the twentieth century's master novelists. Stead spent most of her writing life in Europe and the United States, and her varied residences acted as the settings for a number of her novels. She is best known for The Man Who Loved Children (1940), which was praised by author Jonathan Franzen as a crazy, gorgeous family novel and one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. Stead died in her native Australia in 1983.