The Crying of Lot 49 Junji Ito Iwata discovers a seedy world

Iwata discovers a seedy world of corruption

One of the most influential books written in the past half-century

A story of love

After a harrowing breakup foiled her plans for children—and drove her to a meltdown in a Tribeca baby store—she’s ready to take matters into her own hands

for a few hours

The Crying of Lot 49 Junji Ito Iwata discovers a seedy worldThe Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy. When her ex lover, wealthy real estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service.