The first novel by Paul Auster. In three brilliant variations on the classic detective story, Paul Auster makes the well-traversed terrain of New York City his own, as it becomes a strange, compelling landscape in which identities merge or fade and questions serve only to further obscure the truth. (Backcover text)

Author

Paul Auster (born 1947, Newark, New Jersey) is an American writer and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning. Auster and his wife Siri Hustvedt live in Brooklyn, New York. 

Paul Auster, Wikipedia (en)