Leviathan

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's complex and moving account of Sachs's secret life and his attempt, through testimony, to understand his friend's challenge to the complancency of modern life.Leviathan is a compulsive, brilliant novel, an astonishingly original work of fiction by one of its accomplished masters.