Paul Auster - A final dolgok országában

"A powerful, enigmatic, vividly imaginative, artistic story...One of the best modern descriptions of hell." - The Washington Post

Anna Blume's brother is missing. Anna knows where she has gone: to a city that has fallen into utter chaos. He is on the trail of his brother - will he find him?

Auster's early novel takes place in the unsettling, distant future, in a city whose inhabitants are mostly homeless. They rummage through the garbage, looking for food and household items, there is no industry. The government is completely intangible, it does not provide anything to the people, it is only a depository of corruption. Anna wades through dirt and debris. His brother had been missing for several months; he came to town as a journalist, maybe he's still alive, maybe he's gone.

Auster's dystopia paints a disturbing picture of the situation in which society becomes completely disorganized. How can one survive in a post-apocalyptic environment?