Auster Paul. The Book of Illusions

Книга иллюзий (2002) - роман американского писателя Пола Остера. Язык английский - язык оригинала.
Novel by American writer Paul Auster, published in 2002.
Set in the late 1980s, the story is written from the perspective of David Zimmer, a university professor who, after losing his wife and children in a plane crash, falls into a routine of depression and isolation. After seeing one of the silent comedies of Hector Mann, an actor missing since the 1920s, he decides to occupy himself by watching all of Mann's films and writing a book about them. The publishing of the book, however, triggers another series of events that draw Zimmer even deeper into the actor's past.