Description
The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a fiendishly entertaining novel about a high stakes international backgammon hustler who has telepathic abilities.
Alexander Bruno travels the world hunting for “whales” in lavishly appointed, high stakes backgammon rooms. His marks, unaware of his psychic abilities, think they can challenge his peerless acumen in the game and pay a high price to discover they can’t. But lately he’s had a troubling run of bad luck and a blot has emerged in his field of vision forcing him to look at the board sideways.
Unfortunately for Bruno, it doesn’t get any better. A game at an opulent mansion in Berlin goes awry and his blot grows worse. He passes out at the table and is sent to the local hospital, where he receives an alarming diagnosis. He’s out of money, and the only person he can turn to for help is a crass childhood acquaintance with questionable intentions, who agrees to fly Bruno to Berkeley and pay for his experimental surgery. But Bruno had vowed never to return to Berkeley. Amid the patchouli flashbacks and anarchist gambits of the local scene, Bruno confronts an existential question—is the gambler being played by life?
Story Locale: Berlin; Singapore; Berkeley, CA
Data sheet
- Article
- 100000133282
- ISBN
- Author Name
- Publisher
- RANDOM HOUSE, INC.
- Origin
- Jonathan Lethem
- Book Format
- Trade Paperback
- Weight
- 0.23kg
- Length
- 20.32cm
- Width
- 13.21cm
- Height
- 2.54cm
