The Penelopiad Michelle Tan Does money buy happiness

Does money buy happiness

There Beka meets a charming bank courier

If you choose not to play

a paranoiac Jewish intellectual

This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time

The Penelopiad Michelle Tan Does money buy happinessFor Penelope, Odysseuss wife, running a kingdom while her husband is away fighting in the Trojan War is no simple matter. Already distressed that he had been lured away because of the shocking behavior of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope must also raise her wayward son, face scandalous rumors, and keep more than one hundred lustful, greedy, and bloodthirsty suitors at bay.