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Capital (ISBN 9780571234622) is a novel by John Lanchester, published by Faber and Faber in 2012. [1] The novel is set in London prior to and during the 2008 financial crisis, jumping between December 2007, April 2008, and August 2008. [2] The title refers both to London as the capital city of the United Kingdom, and to financial capital.
Crane-man is hired to create a basket that will carry the vases without breaking them. After taking care to be sure Crane-man will be cared for during his absence, Tree-ear sets off alone for the capital city. Tree-ear walks alone for days. When he reaches the city of Puyo, he goes up to a mountain cliff called the Rock of Falling Flowers.
In Japanese, Kyoto was previously called Kyō (京), Miyako (都), Kyō no Miyako (京の都), and Keishi ().After becoming the capital of Japan at the start of the Heian period (794–1185), the city was often referred to as Heian-kyō (平安京, "Heian capital"), and late in the Heian period the city came to be widely referred to simply as "Kyōto" (京都, "capital city").
On the contrary, I got to see an empty New York go from zero to 100 in a couple of months. For better and for worse, the city was everything that I expected: dirty, cosmopolitan, full of concrete ...
Pampa married them each in turn, though her true love was a Portuguese horse trader who gives the magic city its name, Bisnaga. Pampa first bears three girls and later sons. During the reign of her second husband, Bukka, she requests that her daughters have the right to the throne, going against the norm of male heirs being the sole inheritors.
The City & the City is a novel by British author China Miéville that follows a wide-reaching murder investigation in two cities that exist side by side, each of whose citizens are forbidden to go into or acknowledge the other city, combining weird fiction with the police procedural.
Baku (US: / b ɑː ˈ k uː, ˈ b ɑː k uː /, UK: / b æ ˈ k uː, ˈ b æ k uː /; [7] [8] Azerbaijani: Bakı ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region. [9]
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