'Auster's power of empathy is unexpected, crucial, even delightful.'
Ali Smith, Scotsman
Meet Mr Bones, the canine sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn, New York. Together, Bones and Christmas sally forth to Baltimore, an a last great adventure in search of Willy's beloved mentor Bea Swanson-who used to know him as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees. But is she still alive?
'Few novels are as deligjtful as this..this joy of a book, a ture love story...confirms he has a sense of pathos to match his cleverness.'
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
'A howling success.'
Mark Sanderson, Mail on Sunday
'Lovely... (Auster) is one of our most inventive and least predictable authors.'
Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post