Paul Benjamin Auster is an American writer and film director. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
A retired, disillusioned man moves to Brooklyn to die. He unexpectedly finds himself drawn into a world of eccentric characters, literary scams, and the humorous parts of human life, which makes him want to live and write again.
After the moon landing, an orphaned young man named Marco Stanley Fogg travels across America, uncovering a family mystery of love, loss, and identity while searching for his own origins.
Through the eyes of a loyal and philosophical dog, Mr. Bones, we follow the final journey of his brilliant, homeless owner, Willy G. Christmas, as they travel from Brooklyn to Baltimore to find Mr. Bones a new home before Willy dies.
After the 2008 economic collapse, a young man's photographs of abandoned items connect squatters, artists, and dreamers in Brooklyn, all dealing with their pasts and an uncertain future in a broken America.
After his emotionally distant father's sudden death uncovers a sixty-year-old murder mystery, Paul Auster confronts inherited silences and the challenge of defining himself as a father and a writer.
In a city where the living scavenge and the dead are fuel, a young woman searches for her vanished brother, documenting humanity's last stand in a world near collapse.
After a fireman squanders an inheritance on aimless wandering, he and a brash gambler lose everything in a rigged poker game, forcing them to repay their debt by building a mysterious stone wall for two eccentric millionaires in a desolate Pennsylvania field.
A young poet's coming-of-age takes a dark turn when a twisted love triangle with a mysterious Frenchman and his seductive girlfriend explodes in a shocking act of violence that will haunt him for decades across continents.
