<div>An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber with no memory of who he is or what has happened. Identified only as Mr. Blank, he appears to be a prisoner under surveillance. A mysterious manuscript, fluid identities, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor--<i>Travels in the Scriptorium </i>is vintage Paul Auster describing a world not so very different from our own.<br></div>