A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America—gangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow oddities—whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.
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Tato epická sága se odehrává v pulzujícím New Yorku na přelomu století a sleduje osudy rozmanitých postav, od drobných zločinců po snílky, na pozadí velkolepých technologických změn. Příběh zkoumá témata vzestupu a pádu, lásky a ztráty a hledání vykoupení v neklidné, ale nadějné éře. Je to strhující pohled na americký sen a jeho složitosti, zasazený do dynamického prostředí nově vznikající metropole.



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