Author: Paul Auster
Translator: Bo-seok Hwang
Publisher: Yeollinchaekdeul
H/C | 394 pages | 195*125mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Nathan Glass, a retired life insurance salesman estranged
from his family and facing an iffy cancer prognosis, is "looking for a quiet
place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn." What he finds, though, in this
ebullient novel by Brooklyn bard Auster (Oracle Night), is a vital, big-hearted
borough brimming with great characters. These include Nathan's nephew, Tom, a
grad student turned spiritually questing cab driver; Tom's serenely silent
nine-year-old niece, who shows up on Tom's doorstep without her unstable mom;
and a flamboyant book dealer hatching a scheme to sell a fraudulent manuscript
of The Scarlet Letter. As Nathan recovers his soul through immersion in their
lives, Auster meditates on the theme of sanctuary in American literature, from
Hawthorne to Poe to Thoreau, infusing the novel's picaresque with touches of
romanticism, Southern gothic and utopian yearning. But the book's presiding
spirit is Brooklyn's first bard, Walt Whitman, as Auster embraces the borough's
multitudes?neighborhood characters, drag queens, intellectuals manque,
greasy-spoon waitresses, urbane bourgeoisie?while singing odes to moonrise over
the Brooklyn Bridge. Auster's graceful, offhand storytelling carries readers
along, with enough shadow to keep the tale this side of schmaltz. The result is
an affectionate portrait of the city as the ultimate refuge of the human spirit.
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