The fans had to wait twelve years for a new novel, now it is finally time: in autumn a new work by the American writer is released with “Shadow Ticket”.
With “Shadow Ticket”, a new novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon (87) will be released on October 14th in Hamburg’s Rowohlt Verlag. The U.S.-American edition will be available on October 7, the publisher said. “After twelve years of waiting, we can look forward to a new novel by Thomas Pynchon, whose literary work always challenges the limits of our perception,” said Rowohlt publisher Nicola Bartels. With “Shadow Ticket” Pynchon again shows his unmistakable style and his remarkable ability to analyze social issues with a sharp, humorous and profound look.
Roman plays in Milwaukee in 1932 and in Europe
The novel takes place in Milwaukee in 1932: America is in great depression, the abolition of prohibition is imminent. Al Capone sits in the jail and private detective Hicks McTaggart takes on a routine job: he should find the heiress of a cheese manufacturer and bring home. But suddenly he finds himself on an ocean tumble and finally ends up in Hungary. When Hicks has finally found the fleeting heiress, he puts in complications with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterpions, swing musicians and lovers of paranormal practices, according to the publishing announcement. Thomas Pynchon was born in Long Island in 1937. He studied physics and English at Cornell University, later he wrote technical manuals for Boeing and disappeared. Since then, his books have been the only public traces of its existence, including “The ends of the parabolas”, “V”, “Against the Tag”. Pynchon, who, according to Rowohlt, lives in New York, is considered one of the most important English -language writers of the present.
Source: Stern
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