BY THE SAME AUTHOR The New York Trilogy Inthe Country of Last Things ‘Moon Palace The Music of Chance Leviathan Mr Vertigo Timbukew The Book of Ilusions Oracle Night The Brooklyn Follies Travels in the Seriptorium Collected Novels: Volume One Collecred Novels: Volume Teo The Invention of Solitude The Art of Hunger Hand vo Mouth ‘The Red Notebook Collected Prose SCREENPLAYS Smoke & Blue in the Face Lalu on the Bridge The Inner Life of Martin Frost porrry Selected Poems Collected Poems ILLUSTRATED BOOKS City of Glass (adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazauechelli) True Tales of American Life Chronicle ofthe Cuayaki Indians: by Pierre Claires MAN IN THE DARK PAUL AUSTER ff faber and faberFirst published in 2008 by Faber ad Faber Limited 58 Queen Square London WCLN SAU Primtod in the UK by GPL Mackays, Chath All eights reserved © Paul Auster, 2008, The rght of Paul Auster tobe identified a author f this work thas hen asserted in aocordance with Section 77 ofthe Copyright Designs and Patents Ast 1968 ACIP second oe hi ack {avilable fom the Bish Libary ISBN 978-0-571-24076-0 2468WOTS51 For David Grossman and his wife Michal his son Jonathan his daughter Ruthi and in memory of UriMAN IN THE DARK