Picked up in the small but prolific English-book-shelf at the local used bookstore here in Brussels. I love Paul Auster, and was pumped to find another onbe of his books on offer!

From the back: "Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by the great silent comedian Hector Mann, and finds himself entranced. His growing obsession with the mystery of Mann's true life story will take Zimmer on a strange and intense journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions and unexpected love..."

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This was a great book. Tortured, layered. The stories kept weaving, and you forgot which story belonged to whom. What this Hector Mann? Was this Zimmer? Claire? everything melted a bit, and the parallels were soft, subtle and poignant. I love Austers books in part because he always assumes his readers will figure things out, even if they are really figure-out-able. His characters are rich and intense. His stories never really end the way you want them to, but how they have to. Love it.

Left outside the museum, on the benches, around 6pm.

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