Motti Irish Literature Series The Golden Town

The Golden Town

Set just before the Korean War

are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned

" – Macmillan

Enrique Vila-Matas

Motti Irish Literature Series The Golden TownAn unassuming, unambitious man named Motti, who owns a dog named Laika, has a good friend named Menachem. Motti is the very picture of inertia, until, one night, a drunk Menachem, driving home from a bar with Motti, runs over a woman and kills her. An unassuming, unambitious man named Motti, who owns a dog named Laika, has a good friend named Menachem. Motti and Menachem drink beer together every week, and Motti spends the rest of his time daydreaming