num_pages: 256
description: Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . . The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness and complexity. Leviathan is a compulsive, brilliant novel, an astonishingly original work of fiction by one of its accomplished masters.
language: English
title: Leviathan
titlecomplete: Leviathan
characters: Maria Turner, Peter Aaron, Agnes Darwin, Benjamin Sachs, Lillian Stern, Fanny Sachs
genres: Contemporary, Roman, American, The United States Of America, Literary Fiction, Novels, Fiction, Literature, Mystery, 20th Century
ratings_count: 18080
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger
publisher: Faber and Faber