In the Country of Last Things. - Softcover

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9783425040844: In the Country of Last Things.

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ISBN 10: 3425040847 ISBN 13: 9783425040844

Publisher: Diesterweg Moritz, 2001

Anna Blume, searching for her brother who has disappeared, recounts her wanderings through a modern urban reprise of the Dark Ages where she becomes a member of a scavenger class in search of objects from the past

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Praise for In the Country of Last Things:

"Powerful, enigmatic, imaginative, and handled with artistry. . .One of the better modern attempts at describing hell."
- The Washington Post Book World

"Reminiscent in many ways of Orwell's 1984. . .Auster creates within these pages a place so real it could be our own country, perhaps our very own city."
- The Atlanta Journal Constitution

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In the Country of Last Things is Paul Auster's dystopian future; a tense and compelling novel, '[a]s harrowing and intellectually playful as Beckett . . .' (Time Out)

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PublisherDiesterweg Moritz
Publication date2001
ISBN 10 3425040847
ISBN 13 9783425040844
BindingPaperback
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