Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world. William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives . A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway. An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage. These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.

保羅·奧斯特（Paul Auster，1947—），生於新澤西州的紐渥剋市。在哥倫比亞大學念英文暨比較文學係，並獲同校碩士學位。

奧斯特於1990年獲美國文學與藝術學院頒發“莫頓·道文·薩伯奬”，1991年以《機緣樂章》獲國際筆會福剋納文學奬提名，1993年以《巨獸》獲法國麥迪西文學大奬，2006年10月獲頒阿斯圖裏亞斯王子文學奬。作品除瞭小說《月宮》、《紐約三部麯》、《幻影書》、《神諭之夜》、《密室中的旅行》等，還包括迴憶錄《孤獨及其所創造的》、評論集《飢渴的藝術》及詩集《煙滅》。他的作品已被譯成三十多種語言。

在文學創作之外，奧斯特也熱衷於電影劇本寫作並曾獨立執導電影。目前與妻兒定居於紐約布魯剋林區。