An incisive examination of the many-layered facets of contemporary life in London with sympathetic, realistic characters. Ironically - since one of the principal topics in the vast array covers money laundering by seedy Russian oligarchs - there is a list of characters just as in War & Peace. The current obsession with gender, racial discrimination and inequalities, the shallowness of the cult of celebrity, hypocrisy and inhumanity regarding asylum and migration are all integrated in this epic work.
(Margaret Teh - bwl 113 Summer 2024 ) |
