Timbuktu: A Novel [Paperback]

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.

Paul Austeris the author of eight previous novels, includingThe New York Trilogy, The Music of Chance, andMr. Vertigo. He has also published poems, essays, and two works of autobiography,The Invention of SolitudeandHand toMouth. He wrote the screenplays forSmoke, Blue in the Face, andLulu on theBridge(which he also directed). His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Lovely . . . [Paul Auster] is one of our most inventive and least predictable authors. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

A novel of haunted love whose themes loop around one another like glowing coils, connecting gracefully beneath Auster's clear prose, eliciting the fanciful and the tragic. Oscar Villalon, The San Francisco Chronicle

After reading Timbuktu, we ramble through our world with reawakened senses and newly alert minds. This is the Auster magic. Paul Kafka, Boston Globe

Resonant and tender. Newsweek

Enchanting . . . provocative . . . The mind of Mr. Bones moves with mesmirizing fluidity. Peter Rock, Philadelphia Inquirer

Affecting . . . a moving story, wonderfully told. Arizona Republic

[Timbuktu is] held aloft with audacity and brilliant, idosyncratic language . . . Its risk-taking and brazen energy suggest a writer on the verge of an even more rewarding leap into the air of his lS'