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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.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Udgivelsesdato07-11-2023
- ISBN139780802161444
- Forlag Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- FormatHardback
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Anonym 07/01/2025
Meget speciel fortalt. Meget lange sætninger, men fint forståelige. Mærkelig slutning
Anonym 04/12/2024
Super bog
Anonym 30/10/2024
Så intens, så velskrevet og med så mange budskaber. En rigtig Auster-roman. Læs den og nyd den langsomt som stykker af god, fyldt chokolade.
Mogens C 28/09/2024
Typical Auster identification on whom I am,where and how I am ?..
jytte v 06/10/2024
iIkke den bedste af hans bøger.
Lisbeth J 27/09/2024
Meget smuk roman om at blive gammel, sørge , håbe på nyt liv... og have mange minder.
Jens H 15/08/2024
Smuk fortælling! Sublimt oplæst!
HanneJ 10/06/2024
Spændende rørende bog. Det er altid dejligt at læse bøger af Poul Auster.
Anonym 26/05/2024
Måske ikke Austers bedste, starter forrygende, men mister måske pusten lidt. Dog stadig en fantastisk bog, der varmt kan anbefales.
Lene H 04/05/2024
Kærlighed, savn, sorg og ælde. Lutter vigtige begreber at beskæftige sig med. Rigtig god bog.