Llámame Brooklyn

Ness Chapman, journalist of the New York Post, is told that his friend Gal Ackerman, 25 years older than him, is dead. Then he remembers he had promised one thing to Gal Ackerman: he has to recover an unfinished novel written by Ackerman in a motel in Brooklyn. Ackerman had been compiling and writing hundreds of notebooks, letters, short stories and sketches that Ness, now, will have to edit and finish. We will learn that Ackerman’s only goal was to reach a reader with whom he fell deeply in love: Nadia Orlov, of whom nobody has heard for years. In an emotional and intellectual effort, locked in a room with his friend’s papers, Chapman manages to finish the novel.

Llámame Brooklyn is an ambitious story about love, friendship and loneliness, as well as a textual voyage. From Coney Island to the ruins of a small village in Toscana (Italy), where Bocaccio lived his last days. From secret tunnels in which we find the most forgotten inhabitants of Manhattan to the studio where the painter Mark Rothko put an end to his life, to the jazz clubs frequently visited by Thomas Pynchon and to a bar in Madrid where we will learn the truth about Gal’s origins. This novel is a chant to mystery and to the power of the written word.

Llámame Brooklyn has received these Spanish awards:

* Nadal Award for Novel.

* City of Barcelona Novel Award

* The Critics Award

* Best Fiction Book in Spanish of 2006 (by the newspaper El Mundo)

• Lara Foundation Award to the novel with best reception by the media.