Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571249527
Published:
24.06.2010
No of pages:
320
Invisible
Paul Auster
New York City, Spring 1967: 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. Falling into a passionate affair with Margot, Walker soon finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible is told by three different narrators as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island, in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.
With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.
Tags
Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
General Fiction
Places:
Paris;
Caribbean;
New York
Genres & Themes:
American Fiction;
Memory;
Violence;
Identity
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