Origin: Spain
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Huérfanos de Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethen
Synopsis "Huérfanos de Brooklyn"
"Tengo el síndrome de Tourette." Así empieza esta fascinante novela del gran narrador Jonathan Lethem, donde las palabras, de la boca de su peculiar protagonista, salen atropellándose, incontrolables, mostrándonos las posibilidades de un lenguaje sorprendente llevado al extremo de la originalidad a través de una trama absorbente en parte novela de detectives y en parte fantasía literaria.Lionel Essrog se define a él mismo como el voceador de feria por excelencia de Brooklyn. Criado en un orfanato y trastocado por los impulsos del síndrome de Tourette, trabaja junto con sus tres amigos de la infancia para un mafiosillo local, Frank Minna, el carismático Rey de Brooklynn, en una agencia ilegal de detectives. Pero cuando Frank es fatídicamente asesinado, Lionel se verá obligada a sumergirse en la trama, compleja y llena de sombras, de relaciones, amenazas y favores que conforma el Brooklyn que él creía conocer tan bien y donde resulta que nadie es lo que parece.Huérfanos de Brooklyn supera con creces lo que podríamos considerar una novela negra, subvierte el género y le confiere nuevos matices hasta lograr un texto sumamente original.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
