The telephone rings in the middle of the night. Daniel Quinn answers. A stranger asks to speak to detective Paul Auster. The novel City of Glass opens with this confusion which is then the beginning of a spiral as the author, the real Paul Auster, takes the reader through a labyrinthine investigation where more identities appear at a vertiginous rate. The momentum extending to two more novels, Ghosts and The Locked Room, is brought to life by Igor Mendjisky in his work based on The New York Trilogy. Part thriller, part metaphysical panorama, part story of love and friendship, it is entertaining, exciting and moving, presenting a fascinating and ironic portrayal of a dynamic city, a universe full of life, where anything and everything is possible and, as Paul Auster said, nothing is real except chance.

Hugues Le Tanneur