Nathan Гласс gets over to Brooklyn, to die. Days flow measure, while circumstances do not push off him with Tom, nephew working in a second-hand bookseller bench. The "book of human foolishness" Nathan works above that is filled up by the lots of firstly separate sketches. As he meets with new people, the fragments of recitals of endless foolishness meet in single unit and grow into history oh to meaningfulness and insignificance of human life, opened out on a background colourful American realities of zero years. "Brooklyn nonsenses" are this unhurried and sincere narration from one of the most considerable American writers.