New York: Henry Holt, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Paul Auster's "brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us" begins ÔI am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0805088397.