Leviathan

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 house of one of Sachs’s oldest friends, the writer Paul 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 complacency of modern life.

Leviathan is a compulsive, brilliant novel, and astonishingly original work of fiction by one of its accomplished masters.