The bustling New York through a must read social novel!
Σforty years instead of one, of a family of insignificant people who crossed the ocean in the hope of sleeping well. A man and a woman set foot in the Big Apple in 1913, accustomed to fast, dreamless sleep. The promised American Dream is too late to visit them. And when it arrives, it lasts a while.
They fall in love, get married in a hurry. They give birth to children. Disappointment comes home or starts there. They have a peculiar love, solid from habit and fear. As if there is not enough for their children.
The son, a veteran of the Pacific, a painter by vain talent and a painter for a living, writes their story as he lives his own. He carries them as memories, dowry and curse.
People from the past appear collecting interest that the parents did not have time to pay off.
A neo-noir novel, sprinkled with naturalism and ethnography of decadence. In a McCarthyian New York, where everyone cares about nothing but themselves, no one can claim to be innocent.
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