Moon Palace - (Contemporary American Fiction) by Paul Auster (Paperback)

About the Book

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

Book Synopsis

A "beautiful and haunting" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel of an orphan's search for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his fate, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster

"Auster is a master storyteller . . . Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries."--The Washington Post Book World

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction.

Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and from there moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is an entertaining and moving novel from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.

Review Quotes

"Auster is a masterly storyteller . . . Moon Palace shimmers with mysteries."--The Washington Post Book World

"Enormously compelling . . . Auster has a rare combination of talent, scope, and audacity."--The New Republic

"Good hearted and hopeful, verbally exuberant."--The New York Times Book Review

"Reads like a composite of works by Fielding, Dickens, and Twain . . . Auster has a lot of fun concocting Marco's adventures, almost has much fun as one has in reading them."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Praise for Paul Auster:

"One of the great American prose stylists of our time."--New York Times

"Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter."--New York Review of Books

"One of the great writers of our time."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Contemporary American writing at its best."--New York Times Book Review, on Invisible

"A literary original who is perfecting a hybrid genre of his own."--The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. Paul Auster died in 2024.