Ka-Boom

Paul Auster (también) se zambulle en la distopía

August Brill, a retired book critic who has moved in with his divorced daughter and adult granddaughter, deals with his chronic insomnia one night by making up a story about an ordinary man thrust into a parallel reality, one in which America is embroiled in a civil war brought about by the disputed presidential election of 2000. Brill names his character Owen Brick, and he begins Owen’s story by having him wake up in a deep pit wearing a soldier’s uniform. After being rescued by another soldier, the befuddled Brick learns that he has an important mission: He is to travel to Vermont and assassinate a man named August Brill, who has recklessly invented this crumbling, war-torn alternative America using nothing but his insomniac’s imagination.

Jeff Turrentine de The Washington Post resume Man in the Dark, la última novela de Paul Auster ambientada en una guerra civil que asola Norteamérica tras la elección de Bush en el año 2000.