★“As fate its way with his irresistible characters, the sorcerer-like Auster rhapsodizes about nature, orchestrates unlikely love affairs and hilarious conversations, and considers such extreme experiences as a life in pornography and marriage to a tyrannical religious fanatic…
★This addition to his increasingly tender cycle of love songs to Brooklyn is his most down-to-earth, sensuous and socially conscious novel to date.”
★This addition to his increasingly tender cycle of love songs to Brooklyn is his most down-to-earth, sensuous and socially conscious novel to date.”