Baumgartner

Informationen zum Autor Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal , Sunset Park , Man in the Dark , The Brooklyn Follies , The Book of Illusions , and The Music of Chance among other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His previous novel, 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the Booker prize. He lives in Brooklyn. Klappentext BAUMGARTNER is a respected author in his mid-70s, who is unsteady on his feet, but with the sharpest of minds, which he uses to journey back to his past - the centre of which is the relationship with his wife. Anna was the love of his life - a love of which he has never let go. A warm and wonderful love story with an emotional punch. Vorwort A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers. Zusammenfassung The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. But Anna's voice is everywhere still, in every spiral of memory and reminiscence, in each recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared. Rich with compassion, wit and an eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is one of Auster's most luminous works - a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory.

Préface
A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.

Auteur
Paul Auster (1947-2024) was the bestselling author of The New York Trilogy, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and 4 3 2 1, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among his many international honours were the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Carlos Fuentes Prize, given in recognition of his body of work. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lived in Brooklyn, New York.

Résumé
A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers. The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna.