In the Country of Last Things

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.