Das New Yorker Subway-System ist ein gigantisches Tunnellabyrinth mit verlassenen Gewölben, stillgelegten Gleisen, vergessenen Waggons - letzte Zuflucht für Tausende von Obdachlosen. Hier lebt auch der ehemalige Stahlbauer Treefrog und hier trifft er eines Nachts auf Angela, die ihn an seine Frau erinnert. Ihr erzählt er seine Geschichte. McCann führt uns in eine unbekannte, häufig brutale Welt, erzählt von Iren, Italienern, Farbigen, Indianern, die zu Beginn des Jahrhunderts durch ihre Arbeit den Bau Manhattans vorantrieben und nie vom wachsenden Wohlstand der Stadt profitierten.

Zusatztext 'A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak' Informationen zum Autor Colum McCann, born in Dublin, Ireland, is the author of five novels and two collections of stories. He has won numerous international literary awards. Zoli , Dancer and Let the Great World Spin (winner of the National Book Award) were international bestsellers and his fiction has been published in over thirty languages. He lives in New York. Klappentext By the author of Let the Great World Spin , this critically acclaimed novel delves deep into the underbelly of New York 'Vivid, potent, beautifully measured, and sustained by astonishingly deft description' Maggie O'Farrell 'A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak' New York Times Book Review ___ At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. But above ground, the men keep their distance until a dramatic accident on a bitter winter's day welds a bond between Walker and his fellow workers that will both bless and curse three generations. Almost ninety years later, a homeless man nicknamed Treefrog stumbles on the same tunnels and sets about creating a home amongst the drug addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes and petty criminals that comprise the forgotten homeless community. By the author of Let the Great World Spin , this critically acclaimed novel delves deep into the underbelly of New York Zusammenfassung At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences....

'A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak'

Vorwort
By the author of Let the Great World Spin, this critically acclaimed novel delves deep into the underbelly of New York

Autorentext

Colum McCann, born in Dublin, Ireland, is the author of five novels and two collections of stories. He has won numerous international literary awards. Zoli, Dancer and Let the Great World Spin (winner of the National Book Award) **were international bestsellers and his fiction has been published in over thirty languages. He lives in New York.

Zusammenfassung
At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences.