{"product_id":"brooklyn-crime-novel-by-jonathan-lethem-9781805460404","title":"Brooklyn Crime Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1978 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 daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple of blocks over, a kid gets caught trying to shoplift an adult magazine from a Puerto Rican hole-in-the-wall. A Black teenager and his white friends square up to a rival Italian gang over the right to play hockey in the street. In 1977 a white kid craters a baseball right in the centre of a Cuban guy's windscreen. And so it goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the streets of Brooklyn, the faces of the children change but the patterns remain the same: sex; boredom; friendship; violence; a million daily crimes committed, some small, some unimaginably big. But the real action is away from the streets, played out behind closed doors by parents; cops; renovators; landlords; gentrifiers; those who write the headlines, the histories, and the laws; those who award this neighbourhood its name and control its shifting demographics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the decades, buildings are developed and homes are razed; communities come in and muscle other communities out; the past haunts the present, and perspectives change, so that perpetrators sometimes become victims, and victims sometimes become the worst criminals of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with kaleidoscopic verve and delirious wit, \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Crime Novel\u003c\/em\u003e is a breathtaking tour de force of a quarter of a city and the humanity it contains, and an epic interrogation of how we fashion stories to contain the uncontainable: our remorse at the world we've made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46543291482348,"sku":"9781805460404","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22618343482830.jpg?v=1749742561","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/brooklyn-crime-novel-by-jonathan-lethem-9781805460404","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}