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Paul Auster''s dystopian future from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: ''a literary voice for the ages'' (Guardian)

''That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense . . .''

This is the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that is doomed, and so all that is left is Anna''s unwritten account of what happened.

Paul Auster takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst the horrors that surround us. But this is not just an imaginary, futuristic world: like the settings of Kafka stories, it is one that echoes our own, and in doing so addresses some of our darker legacies.

In the Country of Last Things is a tense, psychological take on the dystopian novel. It continues Auster''s deep

In the Country of Last Things

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 3 February 2005
      ISBN-13 9780571227303
      978-0571227303
      ISBN-10 0571227309
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      Contemporary Fiction Dystopian & Alternative History Fiction Books by Paul Auster

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Paul Auster''s dystopian future from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: ''a literary voice for the ages'' (Guardian)

      ''That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense . . .''

      This is the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that is doomed, and so all that is left is Anna''s unwritten account of what happened.

      Paul Auster takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst the horrors that surround us. But this is not just an imaginary, futuristic world: like the settings of Kafka stories, it is one that echoes our own, and in doing so addresses some of our darker legacies.

      In the Country of Last Things is a tense, psychological take on the dystopian novel. It continues Auster''s deep

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