In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans’s faded mercantile glory. The war is ending and a prosperous new age dawns.
Nathaniel Rich signe avec King Zeno une fresque dantesque marquée par le racisme, l'épidémie de grippe espagnole et la violence. Furieusement actuel."--Quatrième de couverture
King Zeno
King Zeno
The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge. In Nathaniel Rich's King Zeno, the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.