Book description
'That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know
the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no
sense . . .' This is the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find
her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. Like the City itself,
however, it is a journey that is doomed, and so all that is left is
Anna's unwritten account of what happened. Paul Auster takes us to an
unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst
the horrors that surround us. But this is not just an imaginary,
futuristic world - it is one that echoes our own, and in doing so
addresses some of our darker legacies.
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.
