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Ésta es la historia de Walt, el niño al que el Maestro Yehudi enseñó a levitar y a volar. La historia de un adolescente que se convierte en adulto y pierde la magia. La historia de un hombre que trata desesperadamente de reencontrar el sentido de su existencia. La historia de un país, Estados Unidos, desde los «felices años veinte» hasta la dura posguerra. Una vez más, Paul Auster, dueño de una prosa admirable y de una poderosa imaginación, lo...

August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche y se está recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir, e inventa historias en la oscuridad. En una de ellas, es Owen Brick, un joven mago que despierta en el fondo de un foso. No sabe dónde está pero oye el ruido de una batalla. Entonces aparece el sargento Serge, que le ayuda a salir, y Brick descubre que América está inmersa en una oscura guerra civil. Los atentados del once de se...

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Con los años, los lectores de Paul Auster han ido descubriendo que cada libro suyo es parte de una obra única y compleja, una pieza de un rompecabezas de literatura y vida, de verdad y ficción. En estos Experimentos con la verdad, Paul Auster reflexiona sobre el acto y el arte de escribir, sobre los secretos que sostienen toda narración, y nos revela algunas de esas sobrecogedoras irrupciones del azar, esos impresionantes cruces de las líneas ...

Both chilling and poignant, this labyrinthine novel by the author of "Leviathan" follows a man who awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar chamber, as he pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors.

The complete non-fiction works of "one of the greatest writers of our time, " inclusive of one of his most famous essays, "Invention of Solitude." Updated with new material, a must-have .

Vor dem Hintergrund der amerikanischen Kultur und Geschichte der späten 60er Jahre entwirft Paul Austers jugendlicher Erzähler Marco Stanley Fogg ein Geflecht von miteinander verwobenen Geschichten und Begegnungen mit exzentrischen Personen. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Suche nach seiner eigenen Identität.

Auster's brilliant debut novels, "City of Glass, Ghosts, " and "The Locked Room" brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. Now his New York Trilogy is presented in one audio volume.

Auster's brilliant debut novels, "City of Glass, Ghosts, " and "The Locked Room" brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. Now his New York Trilogy is presented in one audio volume.

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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 girfriend, 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 h...

Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic-that reveal the unpredicta...

En este libro el gran escritor norteamericano reflexiona sobre el acto y el arte de escribir, sobre los secretos que sostienen la narración, y nos revela algunas de esas sobrecogedoras irrupciones del azar, esos impresionantes cruces de las líneas del destino, las sombras fascinantes que arroja la vida sobre los muros de la caverna de la literatura. El volumen reúne textos ya aparecidos en castellano, como El cuaderno rojo o el desgarrador El ...

This book is a Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhoo, after the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character, later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own role as father.

This book its about 3 different stories that take place in New York...without a doubt, one of the most memorable novels from the 80's.

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Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggling to be published, and to make enough money to survive. Leaving high school with "itchy feet" and refusing to play it safe, Auster avoided convention and the double life of steady office employment while writing. From the streets of New York City, Dublin, and Paris to a surreal adventure in a dusty villag...

From "The New York Trilogy" to" The Book of Illusions, " Paul Auster's novels have earned him a reputation as "one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers." Here, published together for the first time, are the screenplays of the three films he made in the 1990s. "Smoke "(starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, and Stockard Channing) tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager, and a black teenager who unexpec...

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From the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel - a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survival In a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost bro...