Author: Jonathan Lethem
Translator: Young-hak Cho
Publisher: Hwanggumgaji
461 pages | 220*140mm
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About This Book
From 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.
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