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'''''In the Country of Last Things''''' is a novel written by [[Paul Auster]], and first published in [[1987]]. It tells the story of Anna Blume searching for her brother in a country where things and people vanish from one instant to another.
'''''In the Country of Last Things''''' is a novel written by [[Paul Auster]], and first published in [[1987]]. It tells the story of Anna Blume searching for her brother in a country where things and people vanish from one instant to another.


:''In ''In the Country of Last Things'' Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - futuristic world - but one which chillingly shadows our own.'' – [[Faber and Faber]]
:''In ''In the Country of Last Things'' Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - futuristic world - but one which chillingly shadows our own.'' – [[Faber and Faber]].


:''The book is full of clever notions... Auster tweaks them with great enterprise, sprining any number of odd novelties on the reader.'' – [[The Independent]]
:''The book is full of clever notions... Auster tweaks them with great enterprise, sprining any number of odd novelties on the reader.'' – [[The Independent]].


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Revision as of 21:53, 22 October 2005

In the Country of Last Things is a novel written by Paul Auster, and first published in 1987. It tells the story of Anna Blume searching for her brother in a country where things and people vanish from one instant to another.

In In the Country of Last Things Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - futuristic world - but one which chillingly shadows our own.Faber and Faber.
The book is full of clever notions... Auster tweaks them with great enterprise, sprining any number of odd novelties on the reader.The Independent.