by Jonathan Lethem · Planeta · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789727311057
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«Um rapaz de Brooklyn» is Jonathan Lethem's crime novel, published by Planeta in paperback (302 pages, in Portuguese).
Lionel Essrog, an orphan with Tourette syndrome, works at Frank Minna's detective agency in Brooklyn. When Frank is found stabbed, Lionel sets out to hunt down his killer and uncovers a corruption plot that plunges him into the New York underworld.
Original novel «Motherless Brooklyn»; winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (1999) and the Gold Dagger (2000).
For readers of crime fiction and contemporary literary fiction who appreciate an atypical detective and the urban setting.
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.
