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9781644731482

Huérfanos de Brooklyn (MTI) / Motherless Brooklyn (MTI)

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    9781644731482

  • ISBN10:

    1644731487

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2019-11-19
  • Publisher: Debolsillo
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Summary

El libro en que se basa la película dirigida por Edward Norton.

Novela ganadora del Premio del National Critics Circle.

Una original y brillante novela policíaca por uno de los autores más aclamados de su generación.

«Tengo el síndrome de Tourette». Las palabras salen atropellándose, incontrolables, y las manos no pueden evitar tocar impulsiva y compulsivamente todo lo que tengan cerca. Es el sino de Lionel Essrog, criado en un orfanato y que, junto con sus tres amigos de la infancia, trabaja para un mafiosillo local, Frank Minna, en una agencia ilegal de detectives.

El asesinato de Frank le obligará a sumergirse en la trama, compleja y llena de sombras, de relaciones, amenazas y favores que conforman el Brooklyn que él creía conocer tan bien y donde 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.
Esta novela pertenece al #FondoDeEditor de Literatura Random House «Huérfanos de Brooklyn, con su protagonista inolvidable, el detective afectado por el síndrome de Tourette, convirtió a Jonathan Lethem en un autor de referencia. Con este homenaje a las novelas clásicas del género policial ganó el premio Nacional de la Crítica en los Estados Unidos.».- Claudio López Lamadrid

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Now a movie directed by Edward Norton.


A compelling and complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. 

Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is 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, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

New York Times Notable Book.

Author Biography

Jonathan Lethem (Nueva York, 1964) es una de las voces más imaginativas de la ficción contemporánea. Por su novela Huérfanos de Brooklyn (Literatura Random House, 2001) recibió el Premio Nacional de la Crítica de su país en 1999. En Literatura Random House se han publicado Cuando Alice se subió a la mesa (2003), La Fortaleza de la Soledad (2005), Todavía no me quieres (2008), Chronic City (2011) y Los Jardines de la Disidencia (2014).

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