num_pages: 311
description: 
  'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.'
 - Sunday TimesLionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette's Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for mobster Frank Minna. But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case.
language: English
title: Motherless Brooklyn
titlecomplete: Motherless Brooklyn
characters: Frank Minna, Moses Randolph, Tony Vermonte, Lionel Essrog, Laura Rose
genres: Audiobook, New York, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 40339
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: The Macallan Gold Dagger
category: Fiction
publisher: Faber & Faber