Autor Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn is a compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel. Brooklyn's self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to rip apart our language in startling and original ways.…

With impassioned appeals for forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp essays, and personal accounts of extraordinary literary encounters, Jonathan Lethem's More Alive and Less Lonely is an essential celebration of literature, from one of America's…

The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face.Alexander…

Alexander Bruno is a man with expensive problems. Sporting a tuxedo and trotting the globe, he has spent his adult life as a professional gambler. His particular line of work: backgammon, at which he extracts large sums of money from men who think they…

Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans…

Phoebe Sieglerová poprvé narazí na Charlese Heista v ošuntělém přívěsu v poušti poblíž Los Angeles. Phoebe se snaží najít pohřešovanou dceru své kamarádky a doslechla se, že Heist je mimořádně úspěšný při hledání nezvěstných lidí. Prostořekou, otevřenou…

Tato poutavá variace na klasický detektivní román je dílem jednoho z nejnápaditějších současných amerických spisovatelů Jonathana Lethema, kterého poprvé představujeme v České republice. Lionel Essrog je brooklynskou bizarní „hříčkou přírody“, sirotek,…