Author: Paul Auster
Translator: Jong-in Lee
Publisher: Yeollinchaekdeul
Hardcover | 256 pages | 188*128mm
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About This Book
Man in the Dark is Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the
many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in
his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in
bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about
things he would prefer to forget -- his wife¡¯s recent death and the
horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired
book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war
with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not
fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after
state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the
night progresses, Brill¡¯s story grows increasingly intense, and what he
is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the
early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and
recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last
finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death.
Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a novel of our moment, a
book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it
celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most
grotesque violence.
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