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In den Tunneln unter New York wird ein junger Mann vermisst: William Heller, sechzehn Jahre alt und schizophren. Mit jeder Minute, die vergeht, gerät er tiefer in eine Welt fernab des Lichts und der Vernunft und näher an die Aufgabe seiner selbst.

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A compulsive literary page-turner - Jonathan Lethem meets Donnie Darko

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Underground, in the tunnels beneath New York, a young man is missing.

Above ground, Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. The boy´s mother is reluctant to help and Emily, his girlfriend and only confidante, appears to have vanished too. Can Lateef find Lowboy before it´s too late?

An extraordinary chronicle of a desperate young man and the race to find him, Lowboy is a modern masterpiece.

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John Wray is the Next Wave of American fiction, and Lowboy, his crazy excavation of New York´s underground, is brilliant Jonathan Lethem

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Wray, John
John Wray is the author of The Right Hand of Sleep, which won a Whiting Writers´ Award, the critically-acclaimed Lowboy, and Canaan´s Tongue. He was chosen as one of Granta´s Best Young American Novelists in 2007. Born in 1971, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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