Sunset Park

"Sunset Park" describes the hopes and worries of an unforgettable group of people who come together in the darkest times of the recent American economic crisis: a mysterious young man who takes obsessive photographs of ruins; a cool cineaste with a penchant for the androgynous; a political activist who repairs artifacts of a lost world in his Clinic for Broken Things; a painter of erotic themes; a once celebrated actress preparing for her comeback on Broadway; a small publisher trying to save his publisher and his marriage. The dramatic events that connect the fate of Auster's heroes culminate in an occupied house in the run-down Sunset Park district of Brooklyn, and they paint a moving picture of contemporary America and its inner demons. This novel is an emotional and political one.