Dissident Gardens

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<p><b>Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize</b></p><p><b>Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award</b></p><p>In 1955, Rose Zimmer got screwed. It wasnt the first time, and it wasnt the last. In fact, Rose like all American Communists got screwed by the entire twentieth century. She doesnt take it lying down. For over forty years she pounds the streets of Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, terrorising the neighbourhood, and her family, with the implacability of her beliefs, the sheer force of her grudge.</p><p>And the generations that follow Rose will not easily escape her influence, her ire, her radicalism. Foremost among these is Miriam, Rose's charismatic and passionate want-away hippie daughter, who heads for the Greenwich Village of the Sixties; her black stepson Cicero, an angry debunking machine; and her bewildered grandson Sergius, who finds himself an orphan in the capitalist now.</p><p>A radical family epic, and an alternative view of the American twentieth century,<i>Dissident Gardens</i>is the story of a group of individuals who fought and lost, but might one day win. It is a blast of pure style and literary dazzle from one of the great and most innovative writers of the age.</p>

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Jonathan Lethem<b></b>is the<i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of nine novels, including<i>Dissident Gardens</i>,<i>The Fortress of Solitude</i>and<i>Motherless Brooklyn</i>. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in the<i>New Yorker</i>,<i>Harpers</i>,<i>Rolling Stone, Esquire</i>and the<i>New York Times</i>, among others.

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