Moon Palace

Paul Auster

Jul 2014 · Faber & Faber

About this ebook

'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'
So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate.
'Clever: very. Surprising: always - Auster is a master.' The Times

Ratings and reviews

I found the book a but boring. The story itself is ok but not well unravelled. I am quite unhappy with the finale too. I felt like the story judt ended all of a sudden.

A masterpiece ,full of fantasy, drama and philosophic contemplation.

With humor. Tragic lives. No consolation but the moon.

About the author

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Moon Palace, Mr Vertigo, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ( The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ( The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.