Yazar: Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem, acclaimed author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, here takes the reader on a road trip through a post-apocalyptic USA. Since the war came and the bombs fell, Hatf …

Girl in Landscape offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of a new frontier. Jonathan Lethem's novel is a science-fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's Th …

The first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distin …

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 2019'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.' Sunday Times Lionel Essrog is …

Lethem illuminates the process by which a child invents himself as a writer, and as a human being, through a series of approaches to the culture around him. In the title piece, a letter from his aunt …

From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America. This is the story of two …

Jonathan Lethem again displays his brilliance in this collection of seven short stories, blurring the boundaries of sci-fi, mystery, and thriller. Tales include 'Light and the Sufferer', in …

Lucinda Hoekke works at The Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. She becomes captivated by the ruminations of one particular caller, and they fall desperately i …

“Agee’s prose poem captures the textural variety of Brooklyn in language that bears reading aloud for its lilt, melody, and pleasingly pungent vocabulary.” —Booklist (starred review) For the first t …

'A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad Phoebe Siegler first meet …

Lost Joy collects the writing that first brought Camden Joy wide attention in the mid-90s, when he wheatpasted his “manifestoes” around New York, excoriating the music industry and celebrating unsung …

An uninvited guest, entering the empty New York apartment of a man known to intimates as ‘Dom, ‘ proceeds to write for his absent host a curious confession. Its close accounts of friendship since boy …

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Die Welt nach dem Atomkrieg: Auf dem Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges entwirft Philip K. Dick in seinem 1965 entstandenen Roman das Bild einer zerstörten Gesellschaft, in der die Überlebenden darum kämpf …

Nirgendwo lernt man Philip K. Dick besser kennen als in seinen Stories. Ihm gelingt das überraschende Kunststück, seine Protagonisten, die als Arbeiter oder Angestellte ihren Alltagsgeschäften nachge …

Chase Insteadman, ein ehemaliger Kinderstar, ist fester Bestandteil der New Yorker High Society. Sein soziales Ansehen verdankt er einem Unglück, das in der Klatschpresse für Furore sorgt: Seine Verl …

Witzig und befreiend fordert »Bekenntnisse eines Tiefstaplers« konventionelles Wissen heraus und eröffnet tiefe Einblicke in die kaleidoskopische Natur der künstlerischen Praxis, die Rolle des Schrif …

Wegen der Affäre mit einem schwarzen Polizisten wird Rose Zimmer aus der kommunistischen Partei Amerikas ausgeschlossen. Zuvor war bereits ihr deutsch-jüdischer Ehemann Albert als Spion in die DDR ve …

Für Jonathan Lethem ist Fear of Music (das dritte Album der Talking Heads und das erste, das von Brian Eno produziert wurde) ein Meisterwerk – ausgefallen, paranoid, funky, süchtigmachend, rhythmisch …

September 2006. Bob Dylan hatte gerade das Kapitel »Modern Times« aufgeschlagen. Schriftsteller Jonathan Lethem bekam die Möglichkeit, den Mann hinter dem Trugbild kennenzulernen. Die vier Aufzüge ze …

Als die arbeitslose Phoebe Siegler erfährt, dass die Tochter ihrer besten Freundin vermisst wird, bricht sie von Brooklyn aus auf, um in der kalifornischen Provinz nach dem Teenager zu suchen. Im dun …

Die »Festung der Einsamkeit« ist ein großer und bewegender Roman über die Kraft der Freundschaft und das Erwachsen werden im Großstadtdschungel New Yorks. Die New York Times kürte das Buch bei Ersche …

Verfilmung von und mit Edward Norton und Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis und Alec Baldwin! »Lethem ist ein König der Sätze. Sein Talent ist riesig und sein Blick so scharf wie eh und je.« New York Times E …

Jonathan Lethems first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn One of Americas greatest storytellers. Washington Post Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edg …

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Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who …

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An anthology of post-apocalyptic short fiction from some of the biggest names in science fiction and speculative fiction – including Stephen King, George R. R. Martin and Orson Scott Card Famine, Dea …

Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs — the most revered and irreverent of rock ‘n’ roll critics — twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Ju …

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A dead man is brought back to life so he can support his family in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielike state while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk, …

In Jonathan Lethems wryly funny novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, whos living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans. Its an unusual and a …

A glimpse into the mind of the bestselling science fiction author through a collection of his personal, metaphysical, religious, visionary writings.Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritte …

New York Timesbest-selling author of ten genre-bendingnovels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction. For Jonathan Lethem, ‘;crime stories are deep species goss …

This volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. Then there are investigations of a shelf’s worth of …

Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award In 1955, Rose Zimmer got screwed. It wasn t the first time, and it wasn t the last. In fact, Rose like all Amer …

A father s nervous breakdown during a visit to a theme park; a political prisoner confined to a hole in a busy New York street; a haunted ‘blog’ Welcome to Lethem-land, which can be discovered only b …

**A New York Times top 100 Notable Book of the Year**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. …

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“Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader’s life.” –Michael Chabon A portrait o …

»Lethem ist ein König der Sätze. Sein Talent ist riesig und sein Blick so scharf wie eh und je.« New York Times »Alan, der Glückspilz« ist ein wilder Ritt ins Land der glücklosen Außenseiter. Mit gew …

‘The best first novel I’ve read in quite a long time…A merciless uncovering of the exurban wastelands of the spirit.’ —New York Review of Books Poor George gives us George Mecklin, a restless, soft-s …

‘A primer for Big Bad City disillusionment, unsparing in its portrayal of New York’s debilitating entropy.’—The Village Voice. With a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem. First published in 1933, Mis …

The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted – cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for …

Stories of dark desire and wicked payback from Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Richard Christian Matheson, and more. From Shakespeare to Poe, revenge has always been on …

Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres—from Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Miéville, and many more.   Over the past three decades, …

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detectiveand Motherless Brooklyncomes an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super …

For the first time in book form—a great writer’s classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn. In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New …

Der große Berlin-Roman von Jonathan Lethem Alexander Bruno kann Gedanken lesen. Sein Beruf ist es, reichen Männern bei Backgammon- Partien ihr Geld abzuluchsen. Er trägt Smoking und sieht ein bissche …

Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dicks most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers. In Th …

The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists-from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby-describe their work.If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, …

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The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this ‘;forceful, beautifully written’ (Associated Press) collection that brings together ma …

1978 and two 14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who's just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a dayl …

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitudeand Motherless Brooklyncomes a sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one …

»Das Besondere an den besten Lethem-Romanen ist, dass sie so viel Spaß machen.« The Guardian Seit dem Stillstand lebt Journeyman zurückgezogen mit seiner Schwester Maddy auf einem Bio-Bauernhof in Ma …

Having stormed mainstream literature from the outskirts, Lethem has won a readership both wide and deep, all of whom appreciate his literary excellence, his mordant but compassionate humor, and the c …

A rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling from one of our most innovative writers and critical minds.  Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic …

»Jede Stadt verdient ein solches Buch.«  Colum Mc Cann  Verbrechen, Spekulationen, Gentrifizierung und zerplatzte Träume: Mit meisterhafter literarischer Finesse erzählt Jonathan Lethem die wechselvo …