Book description
In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is
photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned
their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for
having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation
that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years
ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage
high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their
relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to
Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the
inevitable confrontation with his father that he ahs been avoiding for
years. Pulsing with the energy of Auster's previous novel, INVISIBLE,
SUNSET PARK is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with
baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love
and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between
fathers and sons.
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the
Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York
Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of
Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent
Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger
for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and
the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has
been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn,
New York.
