With twelve years of college behind him and no degree to show for it Norman Moonbloom goes to work for his slumlord brother managing apartment buildings in New York City. He collects the rent, cash only, hears complaints, listens to his tenants and observes them and their lives.

Soon he becomes increasingly involved in their lives, caught up their squabbles. The buildings are squalid and his brother won’t spend money on maintenance. Norman soon takes matters into his own hands and engages in a frenzy of cleaning, painting, tiling and plastering with the help of the slothful and underpaid super. Norman wants to make everything right in that little world and when his task is complete he knows he will be fired. ( )

Norman Moonbloom es un perdedor, un pacífico inadaptado que, tras alargar sus años de universidad hasta la treintena, se ve obligado a aceptar el trabajo que le ofrece su hermano como administrador de unos apartamentos en Manhattan. Durante las visitas a los inquilinos, en las que tendrá que soportar sus indignadas quejas sobre el estado de las viviendas, conocerá una variopinta galería de personajes que son, en realidad, arquetipos del Nueva York de los cincuenta. Poco a poco, Norman irá asomándose a las vidas de sus arrendatarios, descubriendo sus más íntimos deseos y penas. Su trato será el detonante de importantes cambios en la vida de Moonbloom quien, desoyendo las exigencias de rentabilidad de su hermano y las indicaciones del sentido común, se embarcará en un desesperado intento por mejorarles la vida.

Il Club del Libro / DRS
Libro del mese Aprile 2019

Tema del mese
Giallo/Thriller ( )

Hilarious and way underappreciated. This is an eccentric cousin of Confederacy of Dunces; you know the type -- myriad partners, straddling the fence as it were, some messy business with a tax-dodge start-up, that one weird holiday when the tequila ghostwrote his version of middle school and what really happened at swimming practice.

Yeah this is that off-shoot and it remains profound and side-splitting. ( )

N.M. es un perdedor, un pácifico inadaptado, que tras alargar sus años de universidad hasta la treintena se ve obligado a aceptar el trabajo que le ofrece su hermano como adminstrador de unos apartamentos. nueva york años 50. ( )