Timbuktu

"Lovely . . . [Paul Auster] is one of our most inventive and least predictable authors."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

"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

"After reading Timbuktu, we ramble through our world with reawakened senses and newly alert minds. This is the Auster magic."—Paul Kafka, The Boston Globe

"Resonant and tender."—Newsweek

"Enchanting . . . provocative . . . The mind of Mr. Bones moves with mesmirizing fluidity."—Peter Rock, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Affecting . . . a moving story, wonderfully told."—Arizona Republic

"[Timbuktu is] held aloft with audacity and brilliant, idosyncratic language . . . Its 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 beautiful memory piece . . . the dark but tender memoir of a man and his canine sidekick unfolded itself as a tragicomic story of a modern Don Quixote de la Brooklyn."—Dana Coffield, Rocky Mountain News

"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