by Jonathan Lethem · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439706472
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«Huérfanos de Brooklyn» is the crime novel by Jonathan Lethem, published by Random House in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Lionel Essrog, an orphan with Tourette syndrome, works at a detective agency alongside three other boys raised with him for local mobster Frank Minna. When Frank turns up murdered, Lionel sets out to investigate in a Brooklyn full of shadows, favors and secrets where no one is what they seem.
The original English work, Motherless Brooklyn, was translated into Spanish by Cruz Rodríguez Juiz. Huérfanos de Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999.
Aimed at adult readers of crime fiction and suspense, with a detective marked by Tourette syndrome.
Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2025, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities.
