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Miles Heller is a young man without ambition, plagued by guilt for the death of half-brother, already seven years living in voluntary exile without contact with family. He finds meaning of life in a relationship to an exceptionally intelligent, but still minor Pilar Sanchez. However, when there is a risk that her family notifiy the police of their relationship, Miles is forced to end his exile and return to his native New York. An abandoned house in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn becomes his home, where a group of young people settled illegally: an idealistic revolutionary, Bing Nathan, rational Alice Bergstrom and  Ellen Brice, suffering with psychological problems. Paul Auster opens up the complex and closely intertwined fates of his characters with a narrative passion , with relentless courage, but also with humility before the "strangeness of life."

"Sunset Park, Auster's 16th novel, again combines his outward-facing and inward-contemplating tendencies."