The Blot

Resumen del libro

Bruno Alexander 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 can challenge his peerless acumen. In Singapore, his luck turned. Maybe it had something to do with the Blot - a black spot which has emerged to distort Bruno's vision. It's not showing any signs of going away. In fact, it's spreading, and as Bruno extends his losing streak in Berlin, it becomes clinically clear that the Blot is the symptom of something terrible. There's a surgeon who can help, an elite specialist, the only one in the world. But surgery is going to involve a lot of money, and worse: returning home. To the land of 'bullying, psychosis and bad taste' otherwise known as contemporary America. Specifically: the garish, hash-smoke streets Berkeley, California. Here, the unseemly Keith Stolarsky - a childhood friend in possession of an empire of themed burger bars and thrift stores - is king.
And he's willing to help Bruno out. But there was always going to be a price.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Jonathan Lethemx{0026}lt;/B (Nueva York, 1964) es una de las voces más imaginativas de la ficción contemporánea. Por su novela x{0026}lt;I Huérfanos de Brooklyn x{0026}lt;/I (Literatura Random House, 2001) recibió el Premio Nacional de la Crítica de su país en 1999. En Literatura Random House se han publicado Cx{0026}lt;I uando Alice se subió a la mesax{0026}lt;/I (2003), x{0026}lt;I La Fortaleza de la Soledadx{0026}lt;/I (2005), x{0026}lt;I Todavía no me quieres x{0026}lt;/I (2008), x{0026}lt;I Chronic Cityx{0026}lt;/I (2011) y x{0026}lt;I Los Jardines de la Disidenciax{0026}lt;/I (2014).x{0026}lt;/P