In the Country of Last Things

From New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster, a dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel “reminiscent in many ways of Orwell’s 1984 ” ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ). “Powerful, original, imaginative, and handled with artistry . . . One of the better modern attempts at describing hell.”— The Washington Post Book World   In a distant and unsettling future, the masses are homeless, theft is so rampant it is no longer a crime, and death—by arranging either a suicide or an assassination—is