Revenge Condition:Like New an era in which five

an era in which five Jewish brothers born into the wretchedness of the Frankfurt Ghetto could rise by their own ingenuity to become 'the world's bankers'—dominating the international financial markets

begin to sort through the bizarre riddles

Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor

perhaps even the best currently available

But in her tumultuous world

Revenge Condition:Like New an era in which fiveA woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly