Sanest Park, by: Paul Auster

"Sunset Park," which is a real neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, carries a central reference to what Paul Auster wants to convey in this novel. This neighborhood includes two contradictory worlds, at least outwardly, Greenwood Cemetery, which the author depicts as a parallel city, encompassing across vast areas of land thousands of those who lived or passed through the city, some of whom are stars of politics, literature, science, and art. At the same time, it includes that dilapidated house that will host a group of young people, most of whom reject what has become of the United States of America, and are seeking their individual and collective identity amidst the transformations the country is experiencing, especially the suffocating economic crisis that cast its heavy shadows starting from the year in which the events of the novel begin, 2008. Number of pages: 275