"The New York Trilogy" von Paul Auster ist eine Sammlung von drei miteinander verbundenen metafiktionalen Detektivromanen: "City of Glass," "Ghosts," und "The Locked Room." 1. **City of Glass**: Der Protagonist, Daniel Quinn, ein...

Reflects the consequences of 9/11, 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. This novel presents the story of a...

A "compelling" (Los Angeles Times) tale of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday - from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel"Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the...

" ... Austers Bücher wirken überraschend zeitgemäß, weil sie auf eine Erfahrung des Lebens - jetzt in diesem Augenblick - aus sind und mit einer monomanischen Lust vordringen in einen sonst sorgsam gehüteten Bereich: in unsere eigene...

'One day there is life ...And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, The Invention of Solitude. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals...

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...

This latest novel from one of the masters of modern American fiction sold over 30,000 copies in the month since publication. It is the story of an elderly man who lies awake in a horrendously violent alternate America. 'Auster is truly a...

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...

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this...

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...

**This is an MP3 CD edition**"...listening to 4 3 2 1 in audio is worth the commitment, thanks to the author's easy-on-the-ears baritone" - Newsday This program is narrated by-and includes a bonus interview with-the author. Paul Auster's...

'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts ...' Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally best-selling novelist Paul Auster now...