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Una novela magistral sobre el poder del destino llamada a coronar la obra de Paul Auster. El único hecho inmutable en la vida de Ferguson es que nació el 3 de marzo de 1947 en Newark, Nueva Jersey. A partir de ese momento, varios caminos se abren ante él y le llevarán a vivir cuatro vidas...

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man’s accidental redemption Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and...

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

*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. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times , Los...

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sach's tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit 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 blind turn of a card."

It is the late 1920's, the era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone, and Walt is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by the mysterious Hungarian Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. The vaudeville act that results from Walt's marvelous new abiltiy takes them across a vast and vibrant country, where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob.

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 40 years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.

This program is read by the author. 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...

This program is read by the author. "Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." —Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books From Paul Auster, a "literary original" (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the...

From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, 4 3 2 1, and The New York Trilogy, Winter Journal presents 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...

After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer soon finds himself embarking...

Un clásico contemporáneo y una de las obras que consolidaron a Paul Auster como best seller internacional. Tres caras de una misma historia con la que el escritor norteamericano reinventó el género policíaco. En La ciudad de cristal, Daniel Quinn, escritor de literatura policíaca, recibe...

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of this astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.

Cosa sarebbe successo se invece di quella scelta ne avessimo fatta un'altra? Che persone saremmo oggi se quel giorno non avessimo perso il treno, se avessimo risposto al saluto di quella ragazza, se ci fossimo iscritti a quell'altra scuola, se... A volte per raccontare una vita non basta una sola storia. Il 3 marzo 1947, a Newark, nasce il primo e unico figlio di Rose e Stanley: Archie Ferguson.

Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date. 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 acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior.

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 uno sconosciuto detective.

Vivir con miedo a perder es negarse a vivir. El esperado regreso a la novela de Paul Auster. «El retrato de este hombre reflexivo que abraza la pérdida y el amor es una revelación magnífica y llena de suspense de los dramas encubiertos de cualquier vida.» Booklist «Una emocionante...

Una de las novelas clave para entender a Paul Auster cuando se cumplen 20 años de su publicación. Una mirada tan dura como hermosa de la naturaleza humana a través de los ojos de un perro callejero. Cuando Mister Bones, un perro callejero de gran inteligencia, se encuentra con Willy G...