The New York Trilogy (Paperback) – Paul Auster

The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected stories that twist the elements of detective fiction. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster’s book is modern fiction at its finest: is it a deconstruction of the hard-boiled narrative, the natural progression of the genre in the postmodern age or something else entirely?