City of Glass

City of Glass is Paul Auster's 1985 debut novel, a landmark of postmodern noir that blends mystery with literary experimentation.

When Quinn, a struggling writer, receives an anonymous phone call and is mistaken for a detective named Paul Auster, he agrees to protect a young man named Peter Stillman — only to find himself caught in a case far stranger than any fiction he has ever written.

As the plot spirals through New York City's underworld, the line between reality and narrative dissolves, making it one of the defining works of contemporary literary crime fiction.