{"description": "Timbuktu is a 1999 novella by Paul Auster. It is about the life of a dog, Mr Bones, who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his homeless master is dying. The story, set in the early 1990s, is told through the eyes of Mr Bones, who, although not anthropomorphised, has an internal monologue in English.", "title": "Timbuktu", "covers": [579993, -1, 10246908, 11025610, 12320559, 13523970, 977680, 13052731, 1014514, 2169343, 12340723, 14042031, 14042030], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "MR. BONES KNEW THAT WILLY WASN'T long for this world."}, "subject_places": ["Baltimore (Md.)", "Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)"], "first_publish_date": "1999", "key": "/works/OL1682236W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL190100A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["High school teachers", "Poets", "Dog owners", "Open Library Staff Picks", "Fiction", "Homeless persons", "Dogs", "Romans, nouvelles", "Nichtsesshafter", "Hund", "Baltimore", "Metropolitan Museum of Art", "Fiction, general", "Baltimore (md.), fiction", "Maryland, fiction", "Dog owners, fiction", "Teachers, fiction", "New york (n.y.), fiction", "Reminiscing", "Chiens"], "latest_revision": 21, "revision": 21, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:07:25.025948"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-20T18:52:29.988402"}}