LEVIATHAN PB

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . . The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster s remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs s oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron s story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man s life in all its richness and complexity. Combining an investigation of freedom and terrorism with all the tension, mystery and allusive richness familiar from Auster s The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Leviathan is an unmissable addition to the canon of one of America s most spectacularly inventive writers. (Times Literary Supplement) [A] Brownian motion experiment of a plot – chock-a-block with identity-swaps, sideways sweeps and lateral leaps. Observer