Travels in the scriptorium

Following the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster offers a novel that is a dark puzzle: a game implicating both reader and writer, and an ingenious exploration of language and time.
An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked in the room. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is this ‘Mr Blank’, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise?
‘There’s no denying the spell the novel casts over the reader.’ Independent
‘Travels in the Scriptorium returns to an earlier arctic mood, the nihilistic gaiety of Beckett (in particular Krapp) or the sub-dermal violence of Pinter.’ New Statesman
‘The cool, spooky, parable-like feel is effective.’ Sunday Times
‘Auster is truly a master of his art.’ Harper’s Bazaar