The Exchange-rate Between Love and Money by Thomas Leveritt - ISBN: 9780099513452
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Sarajevo’s wealth attracts love and danger for two friends.

The Exchange-rate Between Love and Money

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    368 pages

  • Release Date

    15 March 2009

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Summary

A fantastic first novel: an incredibly energetic, funny, bitterly satirical, triangular love story set in the city of Sarajevo.

Winner of the Betty Trask Award.

Sarajevo, 2003. Best friends Frito and Bannerman roll into town, still in search of the fortune they missed out on in the dot-com years. For a while it seems that soaking up reconstruction money isn’t the worst plan ever. But then they both meet Clare, a prosecutor with the international war crimes tribunal, and they b…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099513452
ISBN-10:0099513455
Author:Thomas Leveritt
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:15 March 2009
Weight:246g
Dimensions:198mm x 126mm x 24mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Part love story, part hilarious political send-up, Leveritt’s debut is hectic, intense and verbally dazzling

Part love story, part hilarious political send-up, Leveritt’s debut is hectic, intense and verbally dazzling * Guardian *
Brutal, crazed and hilarious * New Statesman *
There aren’t many debuts with this scope. Leveritt’s take on 2003 Sarajevo is a nutty, funny and constantly inventive ride – Matt Thorne
Start reading and you’ll be drawn into a manic tale of two on-the-make friends who hightail it to Sarajevo… a debut audacious enough to broach questions of heroism and justice – Hephzibah Anderson * Daily Mail *
Thomas Leveritt’s debut radiates a certain clued-up, slacker intelligence … a chaotic combination of wisecracking irony, effortless confidence and a casual, almost lazy informality. Serving up political farce and human tragedy side by side, his story of a city in which everything has its price unravels at breakneck speed * Metro *
A hectic and humorous debut * Tatler *
Hectically entertaining * Arena *
Leveritt is adept at capturing the strange atmosphere of post-war Sarajevo…an ambitious attempt to capture the peculiar flavour of a forgotten country, a forgotten war * Independent *

About The Author

Thomas Leveritt

Thomas Leveritt is half-American, half-British. This is his first novel. He has won the Carroll Medal for Portraiture from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In addition, he has: programmed computers, aid-worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an Army Scholarship into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, a Law Scholarship into Middle Temple, 28 cousins in Texas, and held the UK distribution rights for the very excellent beer Sarajevo Pivo.

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