AUSTER, PAUL
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain...' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, "The Brooklyn Follies". Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and, indeed, from life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption.
Nado en Nova Jersey en 1947, é un dos máis prestixiosos escritores norteamericanos actuais. Autor de novelas, ensaios, poesía, guións e películas de cine, a súa obra é lida en todo o mundo. Entre as súas novelas máis coñecidas pódense citar: Triloxía de Nova York, Moon Palace, Mr. Vértigo, Leviathan, The Book of Illusions e Oracle Night. En 2006 foi galardoado co Premio Príncipe de Asturias das Letras.
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