Dissident Gardens
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The dazzling new novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of All-American radicals.
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The dazzling new novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of All-American radicals.
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A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers - an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicalsAt the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose's influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village.
These women cast spells over the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her cousin, the feckless chess hustler Lenny Angrush; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinging husband, Tommy Gogan; their bewildered son, Sergius. Flawed and idealistic, Lethem's characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference.
As the decades pass - from the parlor communism of the '30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged '70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment - we come to understand through Lethem's extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.
Lethem's characters may pursue their fates within History with a capital H , but his novel is - at its mesmerizing, beating heart - about love.
Autoren-Porträt von Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem, geb. 1964, lebt in Brooklyn, New York. Für "Motherless Brooklyn" hat er den National Book Critics Circle Award 2000 und den Gold Dagger-Literaturpreis 2000 erhalten, außerdem wurde es von der American Library Association zum besten Buch des Jahres gewählt.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jonathan Lethem
- 2013, 366 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0385534930
- ISBN-13: 9780385534932
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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