Sunset Park

Auster's novel of love and forgiveness from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy : 'a literary voice for the ages' ( Guardian ) S unset 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.

Auster's novel of love and forgiveness from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy : 'a literary voice for the ages' ( Guardian ) S unset 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.

Efter nogle svære år vender den 28-årige Miles Heller tilbage til Brooklyn i New York og slår sig ned i et besat hus med tre jævnaldrende. Her venter han på, at hans mindreårige kæreste bliver gammel nok til at rejse fra sine forældre i Florida og følge efter ham til New York. Romanen giver også stemme til Miles kunstnerisk anlagte bofæller, hans forlæggerfar og skuespillermor, og alle kredser de om kærlighedens svære vilkår. Hver sårede, søgende karakters historie understreger behovet for mellemmenneskelige bånd, sammenhæng og skønhed. Med det økonomiske kollaps i 2008 som baggrund minder Sunset Park os om alt det varige: kærligheden, kunsten og livets mirakuløse forviklinger. Romanen cementerede Paul Auster som en af de vigtigste amerikanske forfattere. Paul Auster (1947-2024), amerikansk forfatter til adskillige internationalt anerkendte bøger bl.a. New York Trilogien , Illusionernes bog, 4 3 2 1 . Hans sidste roman, Baumgartner, udkom i 2023. Hans værker er oversat til mere end 40 sprog.