London: Little, Brown, 2000. "Filled with the sights and sounds of New York and with a cast of vividly drawn characters, including scientists, war veterans, prelates, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, New York Time reporters, film actors, and crooners this dazzlingly inventive, mordantly funny masterpiece emerges as the novel readers have been thirsting for: a defining document of our times, a narrative of the twentieth-century written for the twenty-first.". First. Trade Paperback. Nr. Fine.