Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stones, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. August imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the Twin Towers did not fall, and...
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is
recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stones, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus.
August imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the Twin Towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses. August's story grows increasingly intense; and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told.
Passionate and shocking, "Man in the Dark" is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the darkness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. Книга «Man in the Dark» автора Пол Остер оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 8.40 из 10.
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