In the Country of Last Things
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In the Country of Last Things is a novel written by Paul Auster, and first published in 1987. It tells the story of Anna Blume searching for her brother in a country where things and people vanish from one instant to another.
"In In the Country of Last Things Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - futuristic world - but one which chillingly shadows our own." – Faber and Faber
"The book is full of clever notions... Auster tweaks them with great enterprise, sprining any number of odd novelties on the reader." – The Independent