by Jonathan Lethem · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571203161
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«Motherless Brooklyn» is the crime novel by Jonathan Lethem, published by Faber & Faber in hardcover (320 pages, in English).
Lionel Essrog, an orphan with Tourette syndrome, investigates the death of Frank Minna, the small-time gangster for whom he worked at a detective agency disguised as a limousine service. With the chaos of his verbal tics and the help of his fellow orphans, Lionel delves into the web of threats and favors that Frank left behind.
Novel winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 and the Gold Dagger in 2000, also chosen as novel of the year by Esquire in 1999.
For readers of crime fiction and contemporary fiction interested in unusual narrators and a literary approach to the detective genre.
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.
