East and West, capitalism, globalisation: these are the big themes tackled in this new novel by one of our most admired writers, which promises to be both powerful and comic. A struggling businessman in a rising Saudi city fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale force winds. Now in paperback In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
