Title: Sunset Park - Paul Auster - book
Summary :
Because he has always felt guilty about his half-brother's accidental death, Miles has banished himself from his own story. He left his family, abandoned his studies, and works in Florida, clearing out homes deserted by subprime mortgage victims. In love with a girl who is too young, liable for statutory rape, Miles is soon blackmailed and forced—once again—to leave. He then finds refuge in Brooklyn where his faithful friend Bing Nathan squats in a dilapidated house, along with two young women, also condemned to the margins by the inability to express or promote their respective talents. From now on, Miles finds himself geographically closer to his father, an independent publisher who is trying to weather the financial crisis, save his publishing house, and preserve his marriage. Faced with the collapse of the certainties of an entire generation, he is only waiting for an opportunity to reconnect with his son in order to heal wounds that he does not know are incurable...
With this novel about the extinction of possibilities in a society as pathetically disoriented as it is resigned, Paul Auster pays homage to a wounded humanity in search of its place in a world forbidden from memory and which has substituted violence for hope.
