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Dissident Gardens
Cover of the 1st edition
AuthorJonathan Lethem
Cover artistBen Wiseman
LanguageEnglish
GenrePolitical family saga
Published2013 (Doubleday)
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages366
ISBN978-0-385-53493-2

Dissident Gardens is Jonathan Lethem's ninth novel. It is a multigenerational saga of revolutionaries and activists, the civil rights movement and the counterculture, from the 1930s Communists to the 2010s Occupy movement, and is mostly set in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens and Greenwich Village.

The title is an obvious play on "Sunnyside Gardens". Later, a character in East Germany writes to his American daughter, describing his workplace:[1]

The Werkhofinstitut Rosa Luxemburg, though it goes among those of us here by a nickname, Gärten der Dissidenz, which I suppose one might translate as "Dissident Gardens," ...

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