Boomerang

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Boomerang by Michael Lewis, read by Dylan Baker.

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really?

Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling genius. The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.

Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack. The Irish wanted to stop being Irish. The Germans wanted to be even more German. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly, sadly hilarious. He also turns a merciless eye on America: on California, the epicentre of world consumption, where we see that a final reckoning awaits the most avaricious of nations too.

This is the ultimate book of our times. It's time to brace ourselves for impact. And, with Michael Lewis, to laugh out loud while we're doing it.

Critics Review

  • Lewis is the finest storyteller of our generation.

    Malcolm Gladwell

  • He is so good everyone else may as well pack up

    Evening Standard

  • Fascinating…the book could not be more timely…a sharp-edged narrative that leaves readers with a visceral understanding of the fiscal recklessness that lies behind today’s headlines

    New York Times

  • Michael Lewis’s bravura journey through Europe’s economic underbelly brilliantly charts the consequences of a world plagued by debt…highly enjoyable…nicely politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight

    Sunday Times

  • Michael Lewis meets some extraordinary characters in his excursion through the barely controlled madness that is modern finance … lucid, entertaining

    Financial Times

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