Vintage of Paul Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor.

​Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force

A ship trapped in Arctic pack ice with a pregnant stowaway on board is the setting for an essentially psychological novel

In a sense, it's a political thriller which becomes a metaphysical with features of magic realism or even a historical novel and then grows into a love story. And when you find yourself in this love story, you will find it an allegory.