Three cleverly interconnected novels on the nature of identity.
'The New York Trilogy' is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
