Paul Auster’s most recent novel, Timbuktu, was a national bestseller, as was I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Book of Illusions is his tenth novel.
(Zdroj textu a foto: přebal knihy "The Book of Illusions", 2002, Henry Holt and Company, New York, ISBN 0-8050-5408-1.)
Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. One night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann and soon sets on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in...