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Invisible

Paul Auster

From the internationally bestselling author of The New York Trilogy and 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster "One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story with Invisible.

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 girlfriend, 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."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Picador USA
  • Publish Date: Jun 22nd, 2010
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.28in - 6.18in - 0.85in - 0.64lb
  • EAN: 9780312429829
  • Categories: LiteraryComing of AgeWorld Literature - American - 21st Century

About the Author

Auster, Paul: - Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He died at age seventy-seven in 2024.

Praise for this book

"As soon as you finish Paul Auster's Invisible, you want to read it again. . . . It is the finest novel Paul Auster has ever written." --Clancy Martin, The New York Times Book Review

"Auster has never been better." --The Seattle Times (Best Books of 2009)

"Riveting . . . That combination of scrupulous style, psychological depth, story value, and parable-like undertones is masterly" --The Sunday Times (London)

"Occasionally, a novel is so masterful it leaves you breathless. Paul Auster's Invisible is such a novel." --The Boston Globe

"Magnificent . . . The results are revelatory." --Houston Chronicle