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Sunset Park (engelsk)


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Follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. Twenty-eight-year-old Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee New York seven years ago. Now he lives in the sprawling flatlands of Florida photographing the last traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt of foreclosure during the banking crises. When a complicated romance forces him to go on the run again, he returns to Brooklyn to confront his father and his past.

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In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father that he has been avoiding for years. Pulsing with the energy of Auster's previous novel, Invisible, Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness -- not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons


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litteratursiden.dk

d. 16. May 2011

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Marianne Träff

d. 16. May 2011

"Sunset Park" er en skæbnefortælling om fædre og sønner, marginaliserede eksistenser, og livets tilfældigheder - altså en typisk Auster roman. Den 28-årige intellektuelle New Yorker, Miles Heller, har...