Dorrie Greenspan

Ein herzzerreißend komischer Roman über Mütter und Töchter, über die Zumutungen der Liebe und das Glück der Freundschaft, und über unsere ewige Sehnsucht nach dem Süden. Nie mehr will Apple so chaotisch leben wie in ihrer Kindheit. Wie damals in Spanien in dem Zelt am Hippie-Strand, im Sommer 1976, als Apples Mutter Karl Birker kennenlernte. Ingrid, die Strandkönigin von Torremolinos, barbusig, schön und verwegen, und Karl, der Bankangestellte aus Hannover mit Frau und Sohn und schmuckem Ferienhaus…

“Exceptional . . . Deeply researched and elegantly written . . . As a description of the politics and pressures under which modern independent central banking has to operate, the book is incomparable.” —Financial Times

Alan Greenspan’s 18-year stint as head of the Federal Reserve Bank witnessed some of the most massive upward redistributions of wealth in our nation’s history. It’s now clear that his policies contributed greatly to the transformation of Wall Street from an engine that financed American business to a business-destroying machine—and that Greenspan abetted the hollowing out of the U.S. economy by giving Wall Street and Washington everything they could possibly want.

Alan Greenspan’s 18-year stint as head of the Federal Reserve Bank witnessed some of the most massive upward redistributions of wealth in our nation’s history. It’s now clear that his policies contributed greatly to the transformation of Wall Street from an engine that financed American business to a business-destroying machine—and that Greenspan abetted the hollowing out of the U.S. economy by giving Wall Street and Washington everything they could possibly want.