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Getrieben von der Schuld am Tod seines Stiefbruders, hat Miles seine Eltern seit sieben Jahren nicht gesehen. Doch als die Familie seiner minderjährigen Freundin droht, ihre Beziehung auffliegen zu lassen, kehrt Miles nach Brooklyn zurück und bereitet sich darauf vor, seinem Vater gegenüber zu treten. Eine Geschichte über Liebe und Vergebung zwischen Männern und Frauen, Vätern und Söhnen.

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Paul Auster´s Sunset Park is a compelling story of love and forgiveness, from the bestselling author of Invisible and The Book of Illusions.

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Paul Auster´s Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York seven years ago.

What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father - a confrontation he has been avoiding for years.

Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of Auster´s previous novel Invisible, Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons.

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Auster, Paul

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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