One of the most influential novels of the 20th century in a new translation - with an afterword by Clemens Meyer. Manhattan Transfer is one of the great revolutionary novels of the 20th century. Through a multitude of settings and characters, Dos Passos creates a vivid portrait of the urban jungle of New York City. The characters in the novel - a young immigrant, a union leader, a murderer, a careerist, a woman striving for independence, a sensitive alcoholic, and others - seem to be torn from the indeterminate mass of city dwellers, only to eventually be swallowed up again in its chaos. However, the true protagonist of the novel is the metropolis of New York - an immense, anarchic force to which everyone is subject.