Paul Auster's _Sunset Park _is set in the sprawling flatlands of
Florida, where twenty-eight-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 seven 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 - a confrontation he has been
avoiding for years.
Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and
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.
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ISBN
9780571258840
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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