Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The
Locked Room, are here collected in a cloth edition for the first time in
the United States. These three novels brought Auster international
acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard
detective fiction and postmodern fiction. City of Glass combines dark,
Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitchcock film as a writer
of detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series
of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the
night asking for the author - Paul Auster - himself. Ghosts, the second
volume of this interconnected trilogy, introduces Blue, a private
detective hired to watch a man named Black, who, as he becomes
intermeshed into a haunting and claustrophobic game of hide-and-seek, is
lured into the very trap he has created. The final volume, The Locked
Room, also begins with a mystery, told this time in the first-person
narrative. The nameless hero journeys into the unknown as he attempts to
reconstruct the past which he has experienced almost as a dream.
Together these three fictions lead the reader on adventures that expand
the mind as they entertain.