Kurzbeschreibung
A quartet following the lives and themes that dominated living in Britain and America in the 1980s, examining the growth of finance, property, media and terrorism.
Synopsis
"The Dream of the Decade" is a literary/general fiction.
Über den Autor
Afshin Rattansi was born in Cambridge, England in 1968. He has lived in Princeton and Los Angeles in the U.S., Vancouver in Canada, Caracas in Venezuela, Dubai in the U.A.E and Havana, Cuba as well as London in England. After the hurricanes of the nineteen-eighties, he worked on environmental and geopolitical risk for Lloyd’s of London. He has written on literature, politics, fashion, business and current affairs for The Guardian, New Statesman and Society, Plays and Players, The Oldie, Gulf News and many other publications. Most of his life has been spent in journalism: producing programmes for Channel 4 and BBC News and BBC Radio 4’s “Today” programme in the UK. More recently, he has worked on award-winning investigative programmes for the Arabic language station, Al Jazeera. He also helped launch the world’s first 24-hour, developing nation, English-language satellite television news network, based in the Middle East. He was its editor between 1999 and 2001. In 2002, he won a Sony award for his outstanding contribution to international media and journalism.
