housing crisis by Auster 

Paul Auster: Sunset Park 

If Andrew Miller´s Oxcygen was a slight dissapointment in after Miller´s The Land in Winter, so now reading Paul Auster´s Sunset Park after Baumgartner follows that same line of emotions. Not that Sunset Park would be a bad book, by all means it is not, it is good but is it a great book. Not a great book for me, no, even though, somehow, one can always rely on Auster, his text being great.

But, have to admit, I might have liked it (even) better, if I had read the factual book, not listened it. But, also, I wanted to have a bit of a new experience while reading Sunset Park as I found an audio of the book read by the Auster himself, I thought I ´d give it a go, moreover because I know how much Auster himself in his interviews has told that he reads out loud his writing, the beat and the tempo of the text is important, and yes, in that sense, the experience was good. 

Still, somehow, the baseball in the story got me slightly bored and the characters were left a bit superficial (mostly women). The ties to the period, 2008, financial crisis and because of that, the housing crisis in America, was the bottom line in this theme and I accepted it, it got clear but somehow, the relationships between the characters and especially the love affairs, they, to me, were left vague.