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2323663Motherless Brooklynhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/motherless-brooklyn-9780307789129/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3816444/eec4eb82-7cde-475d-80f9-b427680fe4a0.jpg?v=638385919042930000148164MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from Americas most inventive novelist.</p><p>"A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourettes syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." <em>The Boston Globe</em></p><p>Brooklyns 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. Vincents Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minnas 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.</p><p>But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionels colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victims widow skips town. Lionels 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.</p><p><em>Motherless Brooklyn</em> is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.</p>...2260001Motherless Brooklyn148164https://www.gandhi.com.mx/motherless-brooklyn-9780307789129/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3816444/eec4eb82-7cde-475d-80f9-b427680fe4a0.jpg?v=638385919042930000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119780307789129_W3siaWQiOiJhZGM1ODA0Zi0yM2ViLTRiYTAtOGViOS04MjFlMDY4MzExNzciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMwNCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjcwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIzNCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDc6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780307789129_<p>NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from Americas most inventive novelist.</p><p>A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourettes syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving. <em>The Boston Globe</em></p><p>Brooklyns 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. Vincents Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minnas 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.</p><p>But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionels colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victims widow skips town. Lionels 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.</p><p><em>Motherless Brooklyn</em> is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.</p>...(*_*)9780307789129_<p>NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from Americas most inventive novelist.</p><p>"A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourettes syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." <em>The Boston Globe</em></p><p>Brooklyns 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. Vincents Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minnas 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.</p><p>But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionels colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victims widow skips town. Lionels 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.</p><p><em>Motherless Brooklyn</em> is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.</p>...9780307789129_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_a7af29a3-460a-4f00-a6a0-c33a937564ed_9780307789129;9780307789129_9780307789129Jonathan LethemInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-318007d8-d2ba-4eaa-965f-2d434ba2cfba.epub2011-04-20T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group