Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
Masmedia, avantis,
Zagreb, 2012.
The causes of the global crisis are a result of the interdependence of finance, politics, and science, claims Liaquat Ahamed in his book. Alongside politicians, financial experts, primarily central bank bankers and those from the largest commercial banks, manage global processes while protecting the interests of their own countries. By employing permissible and impermissible methods, global nightmares, crises, and collapses arise, including the global collapse of the world economy from 1929 to 1933. Financial Times and Goldman Sachs declared ‘Lords of Finance’ the book of the year, and the author Liaquat Ahamed is a Pulitzer Prize winner.
The Cat’s Table
Michael Ondaatje
Školska knjiga,
Zagreb, 2012.
The author of ‘The English Patient’, the novel adapted into an Oscar-winning film, this time focuses on the story of two boys. In the early 1950s, they find themselves on a long-distance ship from then-Ceylon to Great Britain. Their adventure begins at the ‘cat’s table’ in the ship’s dining room. The boys befriend each other and become involved in the worlds and life stories of the adults around them, leaping from one adventure and unusual discovery to another. The transoceanic long-distance journey becomes a brilliant microcosm of the fluttering dreams of childhood in contrast with the responsibilities and complexities of maturity.
