The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster Piet Verhagen their daughter pulled through

their daughter pulled through

In deze aangrijpende tragedie

En toch zijn we ontevreden met ons leven

Szerb takes us deep into the conflicting desires of marriage and shows how adulthood can reverberate endlessly with the ache of youth

The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster Piet Verhagen their daughter pulled through'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other