by Jonathan Lethem · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439710622
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The Fortress of Solitude is a novel by Jonathan Lethem that tells the story of Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, two friends of different races who grow up in Brooklyn in the 1970s. The novel explores themes such as friendship, race, social class, and pop culture. Dylan, a white boy from a hippie family, and Mingus, a black boy, become friends in a predominantly black neighborhood. As they grow up, their friendship is challenged by the racial and social tensions of the time. The novel also explores the influence of pop culture on the lives of the characters, including punk music, graffiti, and comics.
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.
