John Lanchester (Hamburg, 1962) grew up in Calcutta, Rangoon, Brunei and Hong Kong and was educated at Oxford. He has been a book reviewer, football journalist, obituary writer and restaurant critic for The Observer in London. Anagram has published its five novels In Debt with Pleasure (Betty Trask Prize): "Sinuos narrative of great and evil ingenuity, an abnormal menu entirely black, an extraordinarily intelligent novel, one of the best that have been published in the last years" (Enrique Vila-Matas, El País); Mr. Phillips, "vitriolic and ironic story," The Port of Aromas (Premi Llibreter 2005): "As he did in his unforgettable novel, In Due to Pleasure, Lanchester officiates his art as a conjurer for the contemporary world. A magnificent intimate and social history "(J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, The Courier); "It covers almost a century of how to confront the seductive virus of the East, beyond the topics of simplistic exoticism. Hong Kong presents itself as a fascinating and sometimes disturbing concentrated laboratory of modern capitalism "(Mercedes Monmany, ABC); «A memorable novel» (Miquel Berga, La Vanguardia); Family novel and Capital, and the essay Huy! Why everyone owes everyone and nobody can pay.