Annet's Reviews > Leviathan

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of the road in northern Wisconsin. There were not witnesses, but it appears that he was sitting on the grass next to his parked car when the bomb he was building accidentally went off....The day after the explosion, the wire services ran a brief article about the case. It was one of those cryptic, two-paragraph stories they bury in the middle of the paper, but I happened to catch it in The New York Times while I was eating lunch that afternoon. Almost inevitably, I began to think about Benjamin Sachs....

Immensely intriguing book.
Great writing.
I'm a fan of Paul Auster. Always mysterious, always a challenge to read. Most stories dark in character and storyline.... Always wondering what,...wtf is going on, I found Leviathan one of his more 'accessible' books by the way.
Auster never failing to write magnificently. Grand writer. Not to forget his descriptions of the city of New York.
Big five star for Leviathan. Masterful, virtuoso.

This is the story outline:
The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and bring two FBI agents to the house of his oldest friend, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's complex and moving account of Sach's secret life, as Aaron attempts, through testimony, to make sense of his friend's challenge to the complacency of modern life....