A radiant, passionate, expansive, emotional tour de force unlike anything he has ever written.

Sunset Park explores the hopes and fears of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller, during the dark months of economic collapse 2008:

A mysterious young man working as a garbage man in south Florida is obsessed with photographing thousands of abandoned homes left behind by evicted families. A group of young people squatted in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. A hospital for broken things that specializes in renovation artifacts of a vanished world. William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives 1946. A famous actress prepares to return to Broadway. An independent publisher desperately tries to save his business and his marriage.

These are just a few of the threads that Auster magically weaves together in this fast-paced narrative of modern America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is an amazing confirmation of the fact that Paul Auster is one of the greatest living writers.