內容簡介
布魯克林似乎是個適合死去的地方。
離婚、退休、患病在身且與家人關係疏離的納善先生，孑然一身來到此地尋求最後的寧靜。然而，他原先打算隱姓埋名，不受打擾的餘生計畫，卻在這方天涯畸零人聚集之處，拐了個不可思議的彎。
他初來乍到便巧遇了失聯多年的外甥湯姆，並在逐漸融入湯姆的生活後，認識了這座擾嚷城市裡的其他人。背負複雜過往，帶著各自的迷惘與掙扎，這些來到布魯克林的人，努力地在混亂中找到生活的出路。
奧斯特一反其作品中較旁觀且疏離的角度，以更加溫柔的筆觸，描繪了一個生機蓬勃且充滿希望的布魯克林，更賦予了筆下因各自原因，來到此地展開生活的每個角色真誠溫暖而討喜的各種面向。而書中(同樣也在奧斯特作品出反覆出現)的各種偶然，將所有人的過往與現今串起，也讓故事充滿了一種相互牽引的命中注定，同時也正是那些我們曾遭受的、付出的、為之哭笑的、造就了如今我們的那些過往經歷，讓每一個「我」在茫茫人海中，即便渺小，卻皆獨一無二，無可取代。
生活總會繼續，即便傷口還未癒合，而我們隨時可以重新開始。
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore. Through Tom and his charismatic boss, Harry, Nathanˊs world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances, which leads him to a reckoning with his past.
作者介紹
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, 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 Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed 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 thirty languages.
