Brooklyn Crime Novel – Jonathan Lethem and Christiane Paul on the world’s most famous borough
In Brooklyn Crime Novel, the incredible storyteller Jonathan Lethem (“Motherless Brooklyn”, “The Fortress of Solitude”) has penned a literary tribute to his neighborhood. With great finesse, he tells the kaleidoscopic story of one of the hippest streets in New York: Dean Street in Brooklyn. More than just a street, it is a stage. Every day, people here perform the “dance” amid an interplay of power, money and violence. Who controls the pavement and who pays the price for survival? On Dean Street, everyone comes together – small-time and big-time criminals, rich kids and boys from the hood. But someone else is pulling the strings: parents, police officers, landlords and those who decide the headlines and laws. Lethem blends all of these stories in a humorous, multilayered and touching declaration of love for Brooklyn. “Every city deserves a book like this” (Colum McCann). German text: Christiane Paul; Host: Thomas Böhm
Contributors
Jonathan Lethem
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Christiane Paul
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Thomas Böhm
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Books
Der Fall Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
In der Übersetzung von Thomas Gunkel
Klett-Cotta
978-3-608-50244-2
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