A review by tsharris
Capital by John Lanchester

4.0

At first I wasn't sure if Lanchester would be able to get beneath the skin of his characters, who at first glance seemed to be little more than stereotypes. It also at times felt a little too much like the film 'Babel' - look at our globalized world! But the deeper in, the more compellingly fleshed out his characters seemed, the more real the human drama became - I don't know if I've ever really read an account of a child having to care for a dying parent quite like the one found here.