Rates of Exchange

Malcolm Bradbury

Rates of Exchange

What's It All About?

'Explosively funny' Daily Telegraph

Slaka! Land of lake and forest, of beetroot and tractor. Slaka! Land whose borders are sometimes here, often further north, and sometimes not at all!

Dr Petworth is on a cultural exchange to the small (and fictional) Eastern European country of Slaka. Pallid and middle-aged, Dr Petworth might appear stuffy, but during his short stay he manages to embroil himself in the thorny thickets of sexual intrigue and love, while still finding time to see the major sites.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1983, Rates of Exchange took Bradbury’s satirical gifts to a new level.

Books By This Author

  • Eating People is Wrong
  • Stepping Westward
  • The History Man
  • Doctor Criminale
  • To the Hermitage
  • All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
  • Who Do You Think You Are?
  • Liar's Landscape
  • Why Come to Slaka?
  • Cuts

Books You Might Like

  • Sutler
  • The Picador Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction
  • Astray
Paperback
In Stock

£8.99

Loading Added To Basket
Added to your basket
Buy
Amazon
Blackwells
Foyles
Play.com
Sainsbury’s
Tesco
The Book Depository
The Hive
Waterstones
WHSmith
Ebook
Available

£8.99

Loading Added To Basket
Added to your basket
Amazon Kindle
Blackwells
Foyles
Google ebookstore
iBookstore
Kobo
Tesco
The Book Depository
The Hive
Waterstones
WHSmith

Book Details

Imprint: Picador
ISBN: 9781447222712
Number of pages: 480
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 13/09/2012

Look

Read an extract from this book
Google Preview