Sunset park

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. Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.§An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families.§A group of young people in a squat in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.§A Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.§William Wyler''s 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives.§A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.§An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.§§These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.