Call Me Brooklyn - Softcover

Lago, Eduardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564788601 ISBN 13: 9781564788603

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013

Synopsis

Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, "Call Me Brooklyn" follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving from the secret tunnels that shelter the forgotten residents of Manhattan to the studio where Mark Rothko put an end to his life, from the jazz clubs frequented by Thomas Pynchon to the bar in Madrid where we learn the truth about Ackerman's past, "Call Me Brooklyn" draws upon a rich tradition that includes Nabokov's "Pale Fire," Bellow's "Humbolt's Gift," and the novels of Felipe Alfau--a hymn to mystery and to the power of fiction.

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“Eduardo Lago’s Call Me Brooklyn, the story of a writer trying to complete his dead friend’s unfinished novel . . . is a brilliant act of border-crossing: from country to country, text to text, and mind to mind. It is crazily romantic, excitingly unstable, remorselessly literary, and true to this present-day world in which we are all at once citizens and aliens.”—Luc Sante 

“This masterful, beautifully grave and intimate novel has haunted me. Eduardo Lago, a Spanish novelist who has lived for decades in New York, voices songs of love and sorrow and loneliness in a novel that brings the past—painful memories of the Spanish Civil War—into a present where it burns like the friendship between the two main characters, confiding stories and mysteries in a seedy Brooklyn bar.”—Francisco Goldman 

“One of the finest novels from Europe in the last decades—a book of fantastic courage, otherworldly wisdom, and intense power. Lago is simply extraordinary.”—Junot Díaz 

“Eduardo Lago, the last great revelation of Spanish literature, is a survivor who belongs to the strange race of those who still believe in the power of the written word.”—Enrique Vila-Matas

About the Author

Eduardo Lago was born in Madrid in 1954, and has been a resident of New York City for the last twenty-two years. He has authored numerous interviews with important North American authors, including John Barth, David Foster Wallace, and Don DeLillo, and has also translated numerous works of English literature into Spanish. Lago served for a number of years as Executive Director of the Instituto Cervantes New York, and is a cofounder, together with Enrique Vila-Matas, of the Order of Finnegans.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1564788601
• ISBN 13: 9781564788603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364