A Week in December Marriage and other maladies are manifestations

and other maladies are manifestations of diseases found nowhere but in the heart

and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions

certainly evil — and also her father

and a moving love story

and Sauron

A Week in December Marriage and other maladies are manifestationsA powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction. London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book reviewer; a