Motherless Brooklyn
Winner of the British Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award 2000 and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Fiction 1999
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Produktdetails
- Verlag
- Faber & Faber
- Erschienen
- 2004
- Sprache
- English
- Seiten
- 320
- Infos
- 320 Seiten
200 mm x 128 mm - ISBN
- 978-0-571-22632-0
Kurztext / Annotation
Lionel Essrog wächst in einem Waisenhaus in Brooklyn auf. Aber nicht nur das macht ihn zu einem Außenseiter: Lionel leidet am Tourette-Syndrom - einem Sturm in seinem Kopf, der nur zur Ruhe kommt, wenn er sinnlose Wortfetzen aus sich heraus schreit. Lionels Zukunft scheint durch seine Lebensumstände bereits vorgezeichnet, doch das ändert sich, als ihn der charismatische Kleinmafiosi Frank Minna für seine Geschäfte anheuert. Als Frank ermordet wird, macht es sich Lionel zurAufgabe, den Mörder zu stellen ... Ausgezeichnet mit dem National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, dem Gold Dagger sowie dem Salon Book Award.
Langtext
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 2019
Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans from St Vincent's Home for Boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective-agency-cum-limoservice. Then one terrible day Frank is murdered, and Lionel must become a real detective. With crackling dialogue, a dazzling evocation of place, and a plot which mimics Tourette's itself in its freshness and capacity to shock, Motherless Brooklyn is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant.
Über den AutorIn
Lethem, Jonathan
Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College.
He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger.
He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine.
His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.