Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stones, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus August imagines овхеъ a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself In this other America the Twin Towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued As the night progresses August's story grows increasingly intense; and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told Passionate and shocking, "Man in the Dark" is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the darkness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence Автор Пол Остер Paul Benjamin Auster Пол Остер - выдающий американский писатель, автор знаменитых бестселлеров "Нью-йоркская трилогия", "Тимбукту", "Храм Луны", "Мистер Вертиго", "Музыка азарта" (экранизирован), автор сценария фильмов "Дым" и "В изнеможении", автор сценария и режиссер "Где.  SocieteИздательство: Faber & Faber, 2008 г Суперобложка, 190 стр ISBN 978-0-571-24076-0 Язык: Английский Формат: 140x215.