Leviathan

(copied front eh bamn "Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in Northern Wisconsin..." So begins the story told by Peter Aaron about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, and intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sachs's death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are investigating the case invent an account of their own. Paul Aster's extraordinary seventh novel is about friendship and betrayal, sexual desire and strangeness, and the unpredictable intrusion of violence in the everyday. It is a daring and immensely moving story about and author whom The Time Literary Supplement has called "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers."

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