I started to read me this book without having the slightest idea who he was Jonathan Lethem, or what was this novel. I put the book totally blind and I think the best way to do it, that holds many surprises that will be revealed to the reader with the same subtlety and lack of cash as they appear in the work itself. It is fascinating how a book with an argument so vague and elusive as it may have as strong a narrative structure, with a beginning, middle and end perfectly defined.
The characters are scrumptious, there really is no "bad" or "good" throughout the book, each one does what he must do as the role it has played in history, and it plays more degrees of success according to their qualities and personal circumstances. Perkus is the image of what was the city of New York in its golden age back in the seventies, yet the sad reminder of his decline. While other characters such as Richard, Oona and Chase have been able of converting to the new situation, not to end up like Perkus converted into a kind of polar bear on an ice sheet in the ocean.
There is no room for authenticity in this city reduced to a minimum by the iron hand of a charismatic mayor and external attacks that no one speaks. Manhattan dwellers prefer to live a life free of war "as the paper they read, but is equally false that life simulation games that play parallel computer. In this world it is difficult to know what is truth and what is a lie, resulting in an entertaining and compelling read that makes one think long and hard.
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