THE BANKER’S DAUGHTER
Book ID/图书代码： 11320011B48510
English Summary/英文概要： A remarkable first novel that is part psychological thriller, part contemporary parable. A vivid insight into the unstoppable power of the super-rich, and the world of Islamic banks.
All our parents have secrets.
But Hanna Mehdi’s father is unusual. He ran a major bank that collapsed in suspicious circumstances. When it fell, he turned up at her door and told her they had to run away. They fled to a luxury hotel in Beirut which has now become home. They have a yacht. She wears the latest designer clothes.
One day she discovers that her father may have done far worse than make risky bets on the money markets. She finds a photograph that turns her comfortable life upside down. She has to ask: Has my father been lying to me all this time? Are we in danger? Is my father a murderer?
As Hanna follows the trail of blood from Beirut to Lahore to London, her eyes are opened to the real world in which she has been living, a world in which men do whatever they want, women hold their peace and money buys the ability to avoid all responsibility. Suddenly she is forced to grapple with the costs of her freedom. What will she choose: the dull and guilty ease of being the banker’s daughter? Or the rough comfort of facing up to the truth?
Emran Mian’s brilliantly tense, atmospheric debut takes us deep into the psychology of those whose lives depend on the unscrupulous rich, and makes us think about our own complicity in creating monsters.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一本非凡的小说，一部分关于心理惊悚而另一部分关于现代预言的第一本小说。
我们的父母都有秘密。
但Hanna Mehdi的爸爸是不同寻常的。他开的大银行因为可以犯罪行为而倒闭了。当它倒闭时，他来到她的门前并告诉她他们必须逃跑。他们逃到了一家在Beirut的奢华的旅馆，现在那里已经成为了他们的家。他们有一艘游艇。她穿着最新设计的衣服。
有一天她发现她的爸爸可能做了比对金钱市场进行风险投资坏的多的事儿。她发现了一张使她舒适的生活彻底颠覆的照片。她必须要问：我爸爸一直都在对我说谎吗？我们现在危险吗？我爸爸是一个谋杀犯吗？
当Hanna跟随者血的踪迹从Beirut到Lahore再到伦敦时，她才真正看清楚了她现在正生活的真实世界，一个男人们可以为所欲为的世界，女人们控制他们的和平和钱来买能避免责任的能力。瞬间她被迫要以自己的自由为代价而进行格斗。她将怎么选择：单调内疚并继续做银行家的女儿？还是艰苦的面对真相？
Emran Mian紧张大气的亮相带领我们深深进入到了那些靠着不道德手段获得的财富而生存的人们的心理世界，并且使我们意识到了我们自己对于创造出这种怪物的责任。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：更多剧情：
Hanna是一个来自巴基斯塔家庭的漂亮、知书达理的女人，这种家庭一直都过着奢华的生活。她的爸爸是世界最成功的银行之一的行长：IBCD，国际商业和发展银行或对某些人来说是“世界魅力和欺骗银行”。 在伦敦由一小群什叶派的巴基斯坦人建立，慢慢的它发展成为一个大规模的强大组织，负责许多国家的主权债。但是银行有它自己的秘密。来自Saudi Arabia的Sunnis想要接手这家银行。银行拒绝了。私人的权力斗争使得银行最终破产且其非传统的金融交易也被暴露出来。Hanna的爸爸被强制连夜逃往了英国一避免被逮捕。Hanna也跟随了他。
当小说开场时，Hanna和她的爸爸已经在Beirut的旅馆里住了两年了。在最开始几个月的恐惧后，他们开始放松开始了单调重复的生活。但之后Hanna在她父亲的笔记本里发现了一张照片显示出他和一群他的朋友对着一个头颅得意洋洋的笑着。当她开始质疑，从Beirut旅行到Lahore再到伦敦，她发现自己卷入了调查，并成为了游戏中的棋子。
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Hanna is a beautiful, cultured young woman from a Pakistani family who has always lived a life of luxury among the international jet-set. Her father has been the head of one of the world’s most successful banks: IBCD, the International Bank of Commerce and Development - or to some ‘the International Bank of Charm and Deception’. Started in London by a small group of Shia Pakistanis, it grew into a massively powerful organisation, responsible for the sovereign debt of many countries. But the bank had secrets. Sunnis from Saudi Arabia wanted to take it over. The bank resisted. The private power struggle caused the bank to crash and its unorthodox financial dealings to be exposed. Hanna’s father was forced to flee the UK overnight to avoid arrest. Hanna followed him.
When the novel opens, Hanna and her father have been living in a hotel in Beirut for two years. After the initial months of fear, they have relaxed into a dull routine. But then Hanna finds a photograph on her father’s laptop showing him and a group of his friends looking triumphantly at a severed head. And when she starts to ask questions, travelling from Beirut to Lahore to London, she finds herself embroiled in an investigation that makes her a pawn in the game.
About the Author/作者介绍： 一个英国的巴基斯坦人于1977年出生于Glasgow，Emran Mian在回到Glasgow学习法律前曾在纽约、吉达和伊斯兰堡居住。他是在内阁办公室工作的公务员。他并没有参与到银行的财政援助中；另一方面，他还写报告导致了大学学费的提高。他是《展望》杂志的常驻撰稿人。在2006年，用他的笔名Kamran Nazeer，他出版了备受推崇的非小说书籍，这是关于他在纽约上的特殊的孤独症学校，接受一些白痴，并有权利将他们售往法国、意大利、日本、荷兰、挪威、西班牙、台湾和美国。
这是他的第一部小说。
A British Pakistani born in Glasgow in 1977, Emran Mian lived in New York, Jeddah and Islamabad before returning to Glasgow to study Law. He is a civil servant working in the Cabinet Office. He wasn’t involved in the bank bailouts; on the other hand, he did write the report that led to higher university tuition fees. He is a frequent contributor to Prospect magazine. In 2006, under his pseudonym Kamran Nazeer, he published an acclaimed non-fiction book about the special autism school he attended in New York, Send in the Idiots, with rights sold in France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Taiwan and the US.
This is his first novel.
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