"Over the past twenty-five years, Paul Auster has established one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature."--Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books
"[
Timbuktu is] held aloft with audacity and brilliant, idiosyncratic language. . . . It's risk-taking and brazen energy suggest a writer on the verge of an even more rewarding leap into the air of his own uncharted territory."--Philip Graham,
Chicago Tribune
"A novel of haunted love whose themes loop around one another like glowing coils, connecting gracefully beneath Auster's clear prose, eliciting the fanciful and the tragic."--Oscar Villalon, San Francisco Chronicle
"A modern parable that invites readers to probe below its deceptively simple surface for deeper truths . . . Auster demonstrates a well-honed talent for illuminating secluded facets of the soul."--Michael Hopkins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Lovely . . . Paul Auster is one of our most inventive and least predictable authors."--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
