THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 02740005B02063
English Summary/英文概要： Auster’s 10th novel is the story of David Zimmer, a Vermont English professor whose wife and sons are killed in a plane crash. Zimmer turns to alcohol and sleeping pills to numb the pain. Hope eventually presents itself in the form of silent-film star Hector Mann, who dropped out of sight at the height of his career in the 1920s, and whose remarkable movies become the subject of a new book by Zimmer. When the volume is published, Zimmer receives a strange invitation to meet Mann himself—an offer he accepts with some skepticism. His quest brings him into contact with the mysterious Alma Grund, Mann’s biographer, and an unexpected romance soon flickers between the two. Along the way, they learn some important lessons about redemption, love and the slipperiness of the past. A reading group guide is available at
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 佛蒙特州教授David Zimmer在失去了他的妻子和两个年轻的儿子后的六个月里，一直依靠酒精和安眠药度日，直到有一天他被一部由喜剧演员Hector Mann主演的无声电影绊倒，他突然对这个演员发生了兴趣，因为据说这个神秘人物已经与世长辞六十年之久，从1929年起就已人间蒸发，Zimmer开始了他搜索这个神秘人物之旅。
几年之后，他的信箱中突然出现了一个陌生女人的来信，来信人自称是Hector的妻子，并说Hector拜读了他的作品，有兴趣与他会一面。正当Zimmer 犹豫不决之时，一个陌生女人突然出现在他家门口，并为他作出了决定，永远改变了他的人生。
Awards/获奖情况：" A nearly flawless work, and is the best argument among many that Auster will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time." -- "San Francisco Chronicle"
" Mr. Auster’ s elegant, finely calibrated "The Book of Illusions" is a haunting feat of intellectual gamesmanship...Hector is an inspired creation...more immediate than many flesh-and-blood actors." -- "The New York Times"
" One of his finest [novels]: an elegant meditation on the question of whether an artist or his public ’ owns’ the work he creates, and a thickly plotted succession of interlocking mysteries reminiscent of his highly praised New York Trilogy...gripping and immensely satisfying." -- "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
" An older and wiser Auster has added a new ingredient to the metaphysical play and deft storytelling, a sadness that colors all illusion, that creates a stunningly moving and very real portrait of a man over-marked by death....It is a story of unspeakable grief told with virtuousic brilliance, which Auster finally brings safely to Earth with a very human simplicity." -- "Los Angeles Times"
"A nearly flawless work, and is the best argument among many that Auster will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Mr. Auster’s elegant, finely calibrated "The Book of Illusions" is a haunting feat of intellectual gamesmanship...Hector is an inspired creation...more immediate than many flesh-and-blood actors." --"The New York Times"
"One of his finest [novels]: an elegant meditation on the question of whether an artist or his public ’owns’ the work he creates, and a thickly plotted succession of interlocking mysteries reminiscent of his highly praised New York Trilogy...gripping and immensely satisfying." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"An older and wiser Auster has added a new ingredient to the metaphysical play and deft storytelling, a sadness that colors all illusion, that creates a stunningly moving and very real portrait of a man over-marked by death....It is a story of unspeakable grief told with virtuousic brilliance, which Auster finally brings safely to Earth with a very human simplicity." --"Los Angeles Times"
About the Author/作者介绍： Paul Auster出生于1947年二月三号，新泽西洲的Newark。他曾出版了无数小说，电影剧本，非小说作品。除此以外他还有诗人、译者、电影导演的称号。他最新小说”The Brooklyn Follies”将在2005年底发表。他正参与一部电影“The Inner Life of Martin Frost”创作。他的下一部小说”Travels in the Scriptorium”将在2007年上半年出版。他与妻子，作家Siri Hustvedt一同住在纽约的布鲁克林。
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD
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