Moon Palace—an elegiac family novel about a dynasty of lunatics—was written by the author of the bestsellers "The New York Trilogy," "Timbuktu," "Mr. Vertigo," and others… A touching, highly accomplished, and remarkable book, it describes the misadventures of a Manhattan resident who, for some reason, has grown tired of participating in the social whirl. Becoming homeless and nearly starving to death in Central Park, Auster's hero, in a sense, reaches the Moon.
"Temple" is also a novel about losses and missed meetings, about the sweetness of solitude, about the pleasure of being an outsider and being different.