Paul Auster

Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson’s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson’s life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.

The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and professor Luc Sante, as well as a pulp novel-inspired cover from Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.

“One of America’s greatest novelists” dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as “one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers.” 

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time" (New York Times) Paul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner – phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor – has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary. Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster’s keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.

A dystopian epistolary novel. In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young woman named Anna Blume to a childhood friend. Anna has ventured into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder. In this bleak environment, no industry takes place and most of the population collects garbage or scavenges for objects to resell. City governments are unstable and are concerned only with collecting human waste and corpses for fuel. Anna has entered the city to search for her brother William, a journalist, and it is suggested that the Blumes come from a world to the East which has not collapsed.

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco sets out on a journey from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction. Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.

Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. His interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight back in 1929. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer’s mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico inviting him to meet Hector. Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, “God willing, strike sparks off each other.”Here and Now is the result of that proposal: the epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other’s friendship is apparent on every page.

Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore—a far cry from the brilliant academic career Tom had begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman—a.k.a. Harry Dunkel—once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the "ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York." Through Tom and Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new circle of acquaintances. He soon finds himself drawn into a scam involving a forged page of The Scarlet Letter, and begins to undertake his own literary venture, The Book of Human Folly, an account of "every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I have committed during my long and checkered career as a man." The Brooklyn Follies is Paul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.

The true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American mind and heart" ( The Daily News ). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to the reader. Combining great humor and pathos this remarkable selection of stories from the thousands submitted to NPR's Weekend All Things Considered National Story Project gives the reader a glimpse of America's soul in all its diversity.

Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Written with hallucinatory clarity, City of Glass combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense. Ghosts and The Locked Room are the next two brilliant installments in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.

A sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent (fictional) paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. The mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on, with each Ferguson's pleasures, and ache from each Ferguson's pains.

Jim Nashe é um frívolo bombeiro de Boston que precisa de música como do ar que respira. A mulher abandona-o pouco antes da morte de seu pai, que nunca conheceu e que lhe deixa uma inesperada herança, que ele esbanja à medida que viaja sem rumo pelos Estados Unidos. Sem que estabeleça qualquer ponto de chegada, Jim deixa-se conduzir pelo acaso, que se torna a força motriz que determina a sua vida, transformando-a numa sucessão de acontecimentos aparentemente sem significado. Uma vida errante passada numa solidão quase completa, em que experimenta a divertida e dilacerante sedução do desenraizamento absoluto. Até ao dia em que a música do acaso lhe sugere uma outra aventura: apostar tudo numa única carta... Metáfora de como é fácil perder a identidade e de quão inexplicáveis são as regras que regulam as nossas vidas, A Música do Acaso é um romance sobre liberdade e destino reeditado pela ASA, com nova tradução. Um universo bizarro onde a realidade se transforma e um simples jogo muda irremediavelmente as vidas dos jogadores que nele participam. Obsessão, melancolia e o lado mais negro da natureza humana – alguns dos temas mais caros ao autor – estão todos aqui, neste romance emblemático do trabalho literário de Paul Auster.

When Fanshawe disappears, leaving behind a wife, a baby and an extraordinary cache of novels, plays and poems, his boyhood friend is lured obsessively into the life that Fanshawe left behind.

White hires Blue, a New York City private detective, to keep an eye on Black, but eventually Blue finds his own life in danger

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben’s one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable stable life, to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben’s near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled Leviathan, pages rustling in the wind.

David Zimmer, un escritor y profesor de literatura de Vermont, se pasa los días bebiendo y cavilando sobre el minuto aquel en que su mujer y sus hijos todavía no habían subido al avión que estalló. Una noche, por primera vez en seis meses, algo lo hace reír. El causante es Hector Mann, uno de los últimos cómicos del cine mudo. David escribe y publica un libro sobre Mann, un brillante y enigmático cómico nacido en Argentina, que hace sesenta años se desvaneció sin que se supiera nada más de él. Tres meses después, Zimmer recibe una carta de una mujer que afirma ser la esposa de Hector Mann, y lo invita a verlos, a ella y a su marido, en Tierra del Sueño, Nuevo México...

Anna Blume era partita alla ricerca del fratello giornalista, scomparso senza lasciare traccia durante un reportage, ed è approdata nel Paese delle ultime cose: ormai per lei e per tutti non c'è piú possibilità di salvezza, di fuga. La definitiva catastrofe si è compiuta ma nonostante tutto Anna resiste e si aggrappa a tutte le sue forze per sopravvivere salvando in qualche luogo della sua coscienza una traccia di irrinunciabile umanità, una testimonianza di amicizia, persino d'amore. E con essa la voglia di raccontare e conservare la memoria di quanto accaduto affinché anche gli altri sappiano. Con evidenti richiami alla letteratura fantastica, al noir, ma anche appellandosi alla nostra storia recente, Nel paese delle ultime cose è un tour de force crudo e affascinante che rivela via via la sua intenzione provocatoria: scrivere il romanzo del ventesimo secolo, le tappe di un viaggio infernale con i suoi moderni dannati.

«Piaceri fisici e dolori fisici. I piaceri del sesso innanzitutto, ma anche quelli del mangiare e del bere, di stare nudo in un bagno caldo, di grattarti un prurito, di starnutire e di scoreggiare, di stare a letto un'ora in più, di voltare la faccia verso il sole in un mite pomeriggio di tarda primavera o d'inizio estate e sentire il tepore posarsi sulla pelle». Quando sei perso, guardati intorno. Dubita di tutto e cancellalo. Hai una sola certezza: tu sei lì. Lo sei perché c'è il tuo corpo e tu sei il tuo corpo. Il tuo corpo è lo spazio che hai attraversato, ma anche il tempo che ti ha reso ciò che sei. Il tempo te lo porti scritto addosso: le cicatrici sono parole (questa racconta di quando bambino scivolasti così vicino a un chiodo da poterne rimanere cieco, quest'altra ti ricorda di quando quasi uccidesti tua moglie e tua figlia) e le parole sono cicatrici (quelle che ti disse tua madre dopo che la sentisti parlare al telefono con un uomo che non era tuo padre). Ma non c'è solo il dolore. C'è il piacere, tutto il piacere che hai vissuto, che ti ha travolto in questi sessantaquattro anni: da quello che provi guardando il collo di tua moglie al mattino, a quello che ti insegnò una prostituta nel Quartiere Latino quando tu, ventenne solitario e senza un soldo a Parigi, l'ascoltasti sbalordito recitare a memoria una poesia di Baudelaire. E infine il corpo da cui il tuo corpo ha iniziato a esistere, quello di tua madre. La sua storia e il tuo rapporto con lei sono il cuore pulsante di questo libro (una sorta di doppio, di gemello segreto del tuo L'invenzione della solitudine, dov'era il padre il fulcro dell'ossessione). Hai capito dal silenzio con cui hai accolto la notizia della sua morte e dalla crisi di panico che ne è seguita - fu come sentire il tuo stesso corpo fuggire da te - che qualcosa era cambiato, che dovevi fermarti a ricapitolare. Che eri entrato nell'inverno della vita.

Sinuosamente construído em quatro partes entrecruzadas, o décimo quinto romance de Paul Auster começa em Nova Iorque, na Primavera de 1967, quando o jovem aspirante a poeta Adam Walker conhece Rudolf e Margot, um enigmático casal francês. O perverso triângulo amoroso que rapidamente se forma, conduz a um chocante e inesperado acto de violência cujas consequências serão irreversíveis. Três narradores contam uma história que se desloca no tempo, de 1967 a 2007, e no espaço, à medida que viaja entre Nova Iorque, Paris e uma ilha remota nas Caraíbas. Invisível está imbuído de fúria, de sexualidade desenfreada e de uma busca implacável por justiça. É uma viagem através das fronteiras sombrias entre verdade e memória, criação e identidade. Uma obra inesquecível pela mão de um dos nomes cimeiros da literatura dos nossos dias.

August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche y se está recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir, e inventa historias en la oscuridad. En una de ellas, Owen Brick, un joven mago que ha adoptado el nombre artístico del Gran Zavello, despierta en el fondo de un foso de paredes muy lisas que no puede escalar. No sabe dónde está ni cómo ha llegado hasta allí, pero oye el ruido de una batalla. Hasta que aparece el sargento Serge, que le ayuda a salir del pozo para que Brick pueda cumplir su misión. América está inmersa en una oscura guerra civil. Los atentados del once de septiembre no han tenido lugar, y tampoco la guerra de Irak. Y el joven mago descubre que los Estados Unidos combaten desde hace tiempo, pero contra ellos mismos. Unos cuantos estados -ahora desunidos- han declarado la independencia.

A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novelAn old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.Determining that he is locked in, the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell--vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember--and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching.Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world. William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives. A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway. An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage. These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.

From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude , a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language itself " That is where the story begins, in your body, and everything will end in the body as well. Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations―both pleasurable and painful. Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude , in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. Winter Journal is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.

Qualche settimana dopo l'inattesa morte del padre, Paul Auster, si ritrova nella grande casa ormai deserta di un uomo che per tutta la vita aveva vissuto caparbiamente distaccato dal mondo e dagli affetti. E accostando i frammenti sparsi di un'esistenza pressoché estranea, facendo lo spoglio delle carte e degli oggetti personali di quel padre che era sempre parso distante e sfuggente, Auster si imbatte nelle testimonianze di un lontano delitto che aveva scosso la vita della famiglia all'inizio del secolo. Se nel Ritratto di un uomo invisibile, la prima parte de L'invenzione della solitudine, Paul Auster veste i panni del figlio, nella seconda, Il libro della memoria, la sua attenzione si sposta sulla sua identità di padre. E attraverso un mosaico di immagini, coincidenze e associazioni, «A» riflette su come il caso impercettibilmente governi le nostre vite, sulla natura solitaria dello scrivere e l'inevitabile distacco che lo separa dal figlio Daniel. Un delicato ritratto di famiglia, tutto giocato sul filo della memoria, una commossa riflessione sulla difficoltà di essere figli e padri.

In una città stravolta e allucinata, in cui ogni cosa si confonde e chiunque è sostituibile, i protagonisti di queste storie conducono ciascuno un'inchiesta misteriosa e dall'esito imprevedibile. Tutto può cominciare con una telefonata nel cuore della notte, come nel caso di Daniel Quinn (Città di vetro), autore di romanzi polizieschi che accetta la sfida che gli si presenta e si cala nei panni di un detective sconosciuto. Ma può anche capitare che chi debba pedinare si senta a sua volta pedinato (Fantasmi); o, ancora, che ci sia qualcuno che s'immedesima a tal punto nella vita di un amico da sposarne la vedova e adottarne il figlio... (

Man in the Dark is Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget—his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill’s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus’s death. Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. *Time Out (Chicago)

Nathan Glass ha sobrevivido a un cáncer de pulmón y a un divorcio después de tres décadas de matrimonio, y ha vuelto a Brooklyn, el lugar donde pasó su infancia. Hasta que enfermó era un vendedor de seguros; ahora que ya no tiene que ganarse la vida, piensa escribir El libro del desvarí­o humano. Contará todo lo que pasa a su alrededor, todo lo que le ocurre y lo que se le ocurre. Comienza a frecuentar el bar del barrio y está casi enamorado de la camarera. Y va tambié;n a la librerí­a de segunda mano de Harry Brightman, un homosexual culto que no es quien dice ser. Y allí­ se encuentra con Tom, su sobrino, el hijo de su amada hermana muerta. El joven habí­a sido un universitario brillante. Y ahora, solitario, conduce un taxi y ayuda a Brightman a clasificar sus libros... Poco a poco, Nathan irá descubriendo que no ha venido a Brooklyn a morir, sino a vivir.

In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fifteenth-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pusuit of "a life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single turn of a card." In Paul Auster's world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a shifting and powerful force, there is redemption, nonetheless, in Nashe's resolute quest for justice and his capacity for love.

Nel 1967, Adam Walker ha vent'anni e studia a New York; la sua unica aspirazione è diventare poeta. Durante una festa, conosce l'enigmatico e inquietante professore parigino Rudolf Born e la sua seducente fidanzata, Margot. Tra loro si instaura immediatamente un legame fatto di sottintesi, di cose dette e non dette: Rudolf sembra aver preso in simpatia il giovane e gli offre di ideare e curare una rivista letteraria che intende finanziare. Adam, dal canto suo, prova una forte attrazione per Margot con la quale, quando Born torna temporaneamente in Europa, si abbandona a cinque giorni di sesso. Scoperto il tradimento, Rudolf caccia Margot. Non mostra tuttavia risentimento nei confronti di Adam che, pur sconcertato da questa ambiguità, continua a frequentarlo: sino a quando, una sera, non assiste alla criminale esplosione della sua aggressività. Tormentato dai sensi di colpa per non avere tempestivamente avvisato la polizia e consapevole di aver vissuto un'esperienza che lo segnerà per sempre, trascorre l'estate in città con la sorella Gwyn: complici le loro solitudini e i loro lutti, i due riallacciano le fila di un legame profondo che li unisce sin dall'infanzia. All'inizio dell'autunno, Adam parte per Parigi, ufficialmente perché ha vinto una borsa di studio. Ma Parigi è anche la città in cui, sfuggendo alle autorità americane, è tornato a vivere Born. Adam sa bene che si dovrà così confrontare con la parte più nera e imperscrutabile della propria anima.

PAUL AUSTER INVITÓ A LOS OYENTES DEL PROGRAMA DE RADIO EN QUE COLABORABA A PARTICIPAR EN UN PROYECTO INUSUAL: ENVIAR SUS HISTORIAS VERÍDICAS, CON EL AFÁN DE CONSTRUIR UN RETRATO ESCRITO DE LA VIDA ESTADOUNIDENSE MÁS INSÓLITA. EL ESCRITOR SELECCIONÓ, CON SU PECULIAR MIRADA, CIENTO OCHENTA TEXTOS QUE FABULAN UNA REALIDAD LLENA DE COINCIDENCIAS, HALLAZGOS Y SITUACIONES TAN ABSURDAS QUE PARECEN INVENTADAS. CREÍA QUE MI PADRE ERA DIOS ES UNA ANTOLOGÍA DE RELATOS REALES Y EXTRAORDINARIOS, UNA SELECCIÓN DEL AUTOR QUE ES UN REFLEJO DE LOS TEMAS QUE RECORREN TODA SU OBRA, COMO EL AZAR, LA COINCIDENCIA Y LO INSÓLITO DE LA VIDA COTIDIANA. -TESTIMONIOS INOLVIDABLES DE RESISTENCIA HUMANA.- US WEEKLY -UNA VENTANA A LA MENTE Y EL CORAZÓN ESTADOUNIDENSES.- THE DAILY NEWS

Empieza Ciudad de cristal, con un escritor de novela policiaca que, por azar, se ve actuando como un detective por las calles de la ciudad de los rascacielos mientras se cuestiona quién es en realidad. En Fantasmas, se conforma un laberinto de búsquedas que Azul, el detective, deberá desentrañar. En La habitación cerrada, el protagonista recibe el encargo de buscar a un amigo de la infancia desaparecido que ha dejado una maleta llena de manuscritos inéditos que deseaba que fueran publicados, por razones un tanto confusas.En las obras de Paul Auster, los acontecimientos se precipitan tras sucesos de una naturaleza, aparentemente, insignificante: lo pequeño marca la diferencia y el azar condiciona las decisiones. La investigación de lo otro se convierte en la búsqueda de uno mismo, en el afán de hallar una identidad propia y distintiva.

A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classic. When Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," led to Auster's collaboration on a film adaptation, Smoke. Now the story has found yet another life in this enchanting illustrated edition.It begins with a writer's dilemma: he's been asked by The New York Times to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The writer agrees, but he has a problem: How to write an unsentimental Christmas story? He unburdens himself to his friend at his local cigar shop, a colorful character named Auggie Wren. "A Christmas story? Is that all?" Auggie counters. "If you buy me lunch, my friend, I'll tell you the best Christmas story you ever heard. And I guarantee every word of it is true."And an unconventional story it is, involving a lost wallet, a blind woman, and a Christmas dinner. Everything gets turned upside down. What's stealing? What's giving? What's a lie? What's the truth? It's vintage Auster, and pure pleasure: a truly unsentimental but completely affecting tale.

... هناك الرجل الذي يمضي في كل مكان بمجموعة من عصي قرع الطبول، لاطماً بها الرصيف بإيقاع طائش، عبثي، منحنياً على نحو مرتبك وهو يتقدم في الشارع ويقرع الإسمنت مراراً وتكراراً. وربما كان يحسب أنه يؤدي عملاً مهماً، ولو لم يقم بما هو عاكف عليه فلربما انهارت المدينة، وربما كان القمر سيخرج عن مداره، ويرتطم بالأرض. وهناك من يحادثون أنفسهم، ومن يدمدمون، ومن يصرخون، ومن يلعنون، ومن يتأوّهون ألماً، ومن يسردون على أنفسهم القصص وكأنهم يحكونها لشخص آخر. وهناك الرجل الذي رأيته اليوم جالسا وكأنه كومة من القمامة أمام محطة جراند سنترال، والحشود تنطلق متجاوزة إياه، وهو يقول بصوت عال مليء بالفزع: "فرقة المارينز الثالثة... التهام النحل... النحل يزحف خارجا من فمي". أو المرأة التي كانت تهتف برفيق خفي: "وماذا إذا لم أكن أريد ذلك! وماذا إذا لم أكن أريد ذلك"!

Míster Bones es un perro de raza indefinida, pero de una inteligencia muy precisa. No habla inglés, pero tantos años escuchando el torrente verbal de su amo han hecho que lo comprenda a la perfección, y que pueda interpretar el mundo con una sensibilidad muy canina y una sintaxis muy humana. Ha vivido desde cachorro con William Gurevitch, un vagabundo, un poeta errante, un excéntrico superviviente de las revoluciones de los sesenta. Juntos recorrieron América, sobrevivieron a duros inviernos en Brooklyn y ahora están en Baltimore, viviendo la que quizá sea su última aventura en común...

El deseo de volar. Un huérfano de nueve años. La ciudad de Saint Louis. Los años veinte. Un judío de origen húngaro, mitad místico, mitad prestidigitador. Una granja perdida en las praderas de Kansas. Ritos iniciáticos. Una anciana india que trabajó en el espectáculo de Buffalo Bill. Un joven etíope. El Ku Klux Klan. Las ferias, los circos. El despertar de la sexualidad. La Depresión. Hollywood. Los gángsters de Chicago. Un jugador de béisbol en decadencia. La Segunda Guerra Mundial. El fin de la pubertad... Y un anciano que recuerda. Ésta es la historia de Walt, el niño al que el Maestro Yehudi enseñó a levitar y a volar. La historia de un adolescente que se convierte en adulto y pierde la magia. La historia de un hombre que trata desesperadamente de reencontrar el sentido de su existencia. La historia de un país, Estados Unidos, desde los «felices años veinte» hasta la dura posguerra. Una vez más, Paul Auster, dueño de una prosa admirable y de una poderosa imaginación, logra atrapar y fascinar al lector con una novela que toma como punto de partida uno de los más ancestrales sueños del ser.

El azar, las coincidencias y la casualidad han regido la vida y la escritura de Paul Auster. El cuaderno rojo engloba cuatro historias en las que el autor cuenta la vinculación entre su obra y su vida, cómo en el origen de la creación está su propia experiencia, una inspiración que le brinda el destino. El cuaderno rojo explora los sucesos reales trágicos y cómicos que, hilvanados por el azar, revelan lo impredecible de la naturaleza humana. Ésta es la compilación definitiva del puro idioma Auster.

An intimate and astonishing rumination on gun violence in America from one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The Boston Globe) Paul Auster Paul Auster was a crack marksman as a kid, and like most American boys of his generation he grew up playing with toy six-shooters and mimicking the gun-slinging cowboys in B-Westerns. But he also knows how families can be wrecked by a single act of gun violence: His grandmother shot and killed his grandfather when his father was just six years old.Now, at this time of intense national discord, no issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate about guns. There are currently more guns than people in the United States, and every day more than one hundred Americans are killed by guns and another two hundred are wounded. These numbers are so large, so catastrophic, so disproportionate to what goes on elsewhere, that one must ask why. Why is America so different--and why are we the most violent country in the Western world?In this short, searing book, Auster traces centuries of America's use and abuse of guns, through the colonial prehistory of the Republic, armed conflict against the native population, the forced enslavement of millions, and the mass shootings that dominate the current news cycle. He examines the embattled gun-control and anti-gun-control camps, frames gun violence as a public health issue, and investigates the details of one horrific incident- including the perpetrator's unchecked purchase of the gun he used and the suffering of a bystander-turned-hero. Filled with haunting photographs by Spencer Ostrander that document the abandoned sites of more than thirty mass shootings, Bloodbath Nation is an unflinching work about guns in America that asks: What kind of society do we want to live in?