A long, dark night of the soul as a bed-ridden middle-aged man contemplates his past and tries to find a meaning for his life - and that of his daughter and granddaughter - in a violent, chaotic world. In his warmest and most compelling novel for some time, Paul Auster addresses today's most controversial issues - from Iraq to Bush's regime - through the story of these three characters, united by grief in the family home, but searching for hope
