Sunset Park

Sunset Park

<p><b>Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force </b></p><p><i>Sunset Park</i> follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.</p><p>An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families.</p><p>A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.</p><p>The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.</p><p>William Wyler's 1946 classic <i>The Best Years of Our Lives</i>.</p><p>A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.</p><p>An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.</p><p>These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. <i>Sunset Park</i> is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.</p>