Leviathan

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin .

The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness and complexity.

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of the road in northern Wisconsin...The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the house of his oldest friend, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's complex and moving account of Sachs' secret life, as Aaron attempts, through testimony, to make sense of his friend's challenge to the complacency of modern life.'Auster is an original, haunting and compulsive novelist.' The Times'Rich and complex... with fully fleshed characters, a fast-paced plot, thematic sophistication and narrative cunning.' Boston Globe'A literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own.' Wall Street Journal

A compelling, brilliant novel - an astonishingly original work of fiction. Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness and complexity.

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