"In one fast-paced story, a strong and aggravated man considers the pretty woman at the bar while he fingers the knife in his pocket. But what becomes of his prey when they move to the bedroom? In another tale, a man remembers the victim of a ghastly murder who visited the same hair salon as he does. And a Don Juan of a protagonist has a hobby of marrying vulnerable women, getting access to their bank accounts, and then robbing them blin ..."
"Los Jardines de la Disidencia sigue la vida de tres generaciones de neoyorquinos que no responden al prototipo del patriota estadounidense, puesto que son comunistas, hippies y activistas políticos. Rose Zimmer es conocida en Queens como la Reina Roja de Sunnyside por ser una comunista reaccionaria que importuna a familia, vecinos y camaradas políticos con su carácter feroz y su radical intransigencia. Su hija Miriam, que comparte el c ..."
"«La fortaleza de la soledad ejemplifica, sin necesidad de grandes aspavientos vanguardistas, nuestro paradójico signo de los tiempos».Qué Leer..Esta es la historia de un chico negro y uno blanco: Dylan Ebdus y Mingus Rude, vecinos que comparten sus días y defienden su amistad a capa y espada desde un rincón de Nueva York. Esta es la historia de su infancia en Brooklyn, un barrio habitado mayoritariamente por negros y en el que comienza ..."
"Chase Insteadman, un apuesto e inofensivo producto de la escena social de Manhattan, lleva una vida de ocio gracias a las rentas que recibe de su breve carrera como actor infantil. Además, últimamente ha vuelto a la vida pública por una tragedia que los medios no se cansan de cubrir: su amor de la adolescencia y prometida, Janice Trumbull, está atrapada en la Estación Espacial Internacional, desde donde le envía arrebatadas cartas de am ..."
"With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of "Kapow!, "Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literaturetwelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining new twists and textures each time, just as you'd expect a Kierkegaard story brought into English by Clancy Martin and then sent into Dutch by Cees Nooteboom before being made into English a ..."
Brooklyn Crime Novel (Hardcover) by JonathanLethem Hardcover, Published 2023 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-80546-040-4, ISBN: 1-80546-040-4
"From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping and prismatic story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighbourhood"
"... Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio De La
Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, ... Moriel Rothman-
Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott
Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, ... FIGHT of the CENTURY Writers Reflect
on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases E D I TED BY MICHAEL CHABON &
AYELET ..."
The Arrest A Novel by JonathanLethem 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-293879-4, ISBN: 0-06-293879-7
"The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s just what happens when much of what we take for granted—cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters—quits working. . ."
The Feral Detective (Paperback) by JonathanLethem Paperback, Published 2020 by Atlantic Books Feb 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-751-2, ISBN: 1-78649-751-4
"To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Un ..."
The Arrest (Large Print) by JonathanLethem Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by Harperluxe, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-06-302920-0, ISBN: 0-06-302920-0
"The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted--cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters--quits working. . ."
The Arrest (CD-Audio) by JonathanLethem Published 2020 by Harpercollins, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-79994-447-8, ISBN: 1-79994-447-6
"... Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff,
Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor ... A forty-eight-year-old Jewish
ACLU volunteer named Allen Brown. Brown died in 2004, but his friend and
colleague Norman Slutsky said of him: “If ever there was a Jewish saint, it was
Allen."
"SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 2019 'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality."