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Quinn, que en otros tiempos fuera poeta y cuya mujer e hijo han muerto, vive en soledad escribiendo novelas policíacas. Alguien lo llama varias veces por teléfono en medio de la noche, tomándolo por un detective llamado Paul Auster, y solicitando su ayuda. Quinn decide al fin personificar al desconocido Paul Auster y conoce entonces a otro palido poeta, que cuenta una historia aterradora: cuando nacio, su padre lo encerro y aislo del mundo durante años para que pudiera hablar la lengua que olvidaron los hombres tras la construccion de la torre de Babel. Pero el niño fue rescatado y el padre recluido en una institucion, de la que ahora esta a punto de salir. El hijo teme por su vida y desea que el detective Paul Auster ?o Quinn? lo proteja. Ciudad de cristal inicia La trilogia de Nueva York, un deslumbrante conjunto de thrillers posmodernos que consagro a Paul Auster como un clasico contemporaneo. Ahora nos llega en forma de novela grafica de la mano de los grandes dibujantes David Mazzucchelli y Paul Karasic, quienes consiguen crear un extraño doble, un Doppelganger del libro original, como dice Art Spiegelman, creador de Maus e instigador de la adaptacion.

La trasbalsadora experiencia d'Adam Walker, un jove aspirant a poeta, i els seus primers aprenentatges sobre els misteris de la vida -vicis, obsessions, violencia i sexe-, recorren sinuosament les pagines d'Invisible. Una historia que, explicada pels tres protagonistes del triangle pervers que origina, viatja en el temps entre 1967 i 2007 i se situa en llocs tan diversos com Nova York, Paris o una aillada illa caribenya, i en la qual Paul Auster transita ben explicitament per la fina frontera entre realitat i ficcio.

"Miles Heller ha ventotto anni e vive in Florida. Ha poco, eppure ha tutto: l''amore di un''adorabile ragazza di origini cubane, la passione trasmessagli dal padre per il baseball con le sue storie fatte di destino e casualita, e i libri, ""una malattia da cui non vuole essere curato"". Il lavoro non e un granche, d''accordo, ma lui sembra farlo come se in quell''attivita intuisse un misterioso legame con la sua esistenza: affinche le banche possano rimetterle in vendita, deve entrare nelle abitazioni abbandonate e fotografare gli oggetti che gli inquilini vi hanno lasciato. Ma Miles ha una vita precedente da cui negli ultimi sette anni e fuggito. E continuerebbe a farlo se il destino (o il caso) non si mettesse in mezzo: Pilar, la sua ragazza, e orfana e vive con le sorelle maggiori. Ed e minorenne. Cosi quando decide di trasferirsi da Miles, lui deve avere il loro consenso che ottiene corrompendo la piu grande. Ma dopo qualche mese, Angela Sanchez inizia a ricattarlo. A Miles non resta che cambiare aria per un po'': in fondo Pilar sara presto maggiorenne e nulla potra separarli. Si rivolge all''unico amico con cui e rimasto in contatto, Bing, che insieme ad altri tre ragazzi vive a Brooklyn, in una casa occupata in una zona chiamata Sunset Park. Tornare a New York, la sua citta natale, significa fare i conti con i motivi che l''hanno spinto ad andarsene di casa, significa chiarire definitivamente i motivi che hanno determinato la morte del fratello Bobby. "

En 1967, Adam Walker, un joven poeta ávido de vida y literatura, estudia en la Universidad de Columbia, se opone a la guerra de Vietnam y es muy apuesto. Una noche conoce a una pareja de franceses muy sofisticados, Rudolf y Margot. Tras varios dias en que ambos ejercen su ambigua seduccion sobre el inocente americano, Rudolf le ofrece a Adam la direccion de una revista literaria que el financiara. Adam ya sospecha que quiza el profesor sea un hombre peligroso, pero no puede resistirse a su oferta. Y tampoco resistira a la insinuante Margot... Pero, en estos juegos peligrosos, ¿quien es la presa y quien el cazador? Una autentica obra maestra en su genero (Dario Villanueva, El Mundo). Notabilisima novela. Un Auster estupendo (Sergi Sanchez, El Periodico). Da un salto literario en su nueva novela (Winston Manrique, El Pais).La mejor novela de Paul Auster (New York Times).NOTAS PARA ISBN:El autor es ingles.

Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.Austers probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonvilles most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death.In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Cranes astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Cranes creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiencesthe dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

À partir des photographies prises par Spencer Ostrander sur les lieux des tueries de masse des 20 dernières années aux États-Unis, Paul Auster retrace l'histoire de la violence par arme à feu, de la

BLOODBATH NATION is about the Epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society. An Epidemic caused - not by Covid - but by Guns. Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies.The massacres have taken place in churches, schools, movie theatres, and at rock concerts. Auster establishes how America's love affair with guns goes all the way back to the arrival of the first British settlers - guns in hand - who used these guns to eradicate the Native Americans who occupied the country. This history of carnage continues to this day.Interwoven into the text are photographs taken by Spencer Ostrander of the locations of the mass killlngs - which serve as mute testaments to the lives that have been lost. Guns have become one of the issues dividing America today, but Auster doesn't take sides. The book is a plea for both sides to find a way of avoiding more death and grief.Accompanying Auster's text is a series of photographs of the locations of these mass killings. There are no bodies - only the empty spaces which stand as mute memorials to the lives that have been lost.