El Palacio de la Luna (Paperback)

from eclecticheart

Unlike most of Auster's works, I'd only read this one once or twice. It's pretty typical Auster. It twists over on itself and has a story-in-a-story in the mix, which complicates things if you aren't paying close attention. I do recommend that you read In the Country of Last Things before checkin...

from JonArnold

I came to Auster through a whole lot of coincidences; a few friends independently recommended him to me in the space of a few weeks and finding this in a second hand bookshop felt like destiny. Coincidence plays a large part in the unravelling of this story; characters are bound together by an un...

from ursula

MS Fogg, the protagonist in Moon Palace, is a student at loose ends in 1960s New York. He decides to try just sort of floating on the stream of life, with results that would have been predictable to anyone except a young man in his early twenties who's always been able to get along: he ends up ho...

from Morganna1afey

SPOILER ALERT I loved this novel. Paul Auster has done it again, with remarkable depth and brilliance. As always, Auster's ideas are amazing, and make for an entertaining read as well as a study on identity. Marco Stanley Fogg, or M.S. Fogg, is an orphan who seems to be spending the entire story ...

from Kayla-Marie

I loved this book! For the first 100 pages or so, I had a hard time remembering that I was reading a fiction novel because it felt more like I was reading Paul Auster's memoir. Auster is great at making extreme and coincidental circumstances seem realistic and probable.