The book of illusions

By Paul Auster

Subjects: Silent films, Missing persons, fiction, Aircraft accident victims' families, Motion picture industry, fiction, Absence and presumption of death, Missing persons, Widowers, Comedians, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Biographers, Fiction, psychological, Widowers, fiction

Description: Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the world. Zimmer embarks on a journey to study the films, and thus begins a story within a mystery within a fable.