Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance

✍ Scribed by Matthew Kneale

• Book ID: 110819980
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 169 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307427793
• ASIN: B0012D1DKK

✦ Synopsis

A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he's always hungered for. A salesman in Africa gets caught up in a riot, and a Palestinian suicide bomber has a moment of self-doubt. Kneale transports readers across continents in a nanosecond, reaching to the heart of faraway societies with rare perceptiveness. With wry humor and razor-sharp satire, these twelve thought-provoking stories illuminate the moral uncertainty of our time.