Sunset park
Miles Heller je mladý človek bez ambícií, sužovaný pocitom viny za smrť nevlastného brata, už sedem rokov žijúci v dobrovoľnom exile bez kontaktu s rodinou. Zmysel života nachádza až vo vzťahu s výnimočne inteligentnou, no ešte neplnoletou Pilar Sanc
hezovou. Keď však hrozí, že jej rodina ich vzťah oznámi polícii, Miles je nútený ukončiť svoj exil a vrátiť sa do rodného New Yorku. Jeho domovom sa stáva opustený dom v brooklynskej štvrti Sunset Park, v ktorom sa ilegálne usadila skupinka mladých ľ
udí - idealistický revolucionár Bing Nathan, racionálna Alice Bergstromová a psychickými problémami trpiaca Ellen Briceová.
Paul Auster rozohráva zložité a vzájomne poprepájané osudy svojich postáv s rozprávačskou vášňou, s neúprosnou odvahou, ale a
j s pokorou pred "podivnosťou života".
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Timbuktu
"What was a poor dog to do?": This story of contemporary America--from the poet- wanderer's life on the streets to the world of "two-car garages, home-improvement loans, and neo-Renaissance shopping malls"--is told from the point of view of a "four-l
eg", Mr. Bones. Following his critically acclaimed The New York Trilogy and The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster's new novel is a sad and witty saga of a dog's life. With the imminent demise of his first master, Willy G. Christmas--on his way to "T
imbuktu"--Mr Bones faces an uncertain future as a "lost" dog, an ownerless dog, a homeless dog. Timbuktu is a tale of what happens, before and after Willy's death: the dilemmas of ethics and affection, of a man and a dog in search of love and friends
hip. In Mr Bones' dreams, Willy comes back, exhorting, advising, allegorising: "People get treated like dogs, too, my friend, and sometimes they have to sleep in barns and meadows because there's nowhere else for them to go." Like Mom-san, Willy's mo
ther, "hunted ... down like a dog" in Warsaw. The connection is crucial to the novel; its sustained, but discreet, reflection on the vicissitudes of human--and canine--love and hate. --Vicky Lebeau--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.
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Leviathan
'Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .'
The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness and complexity.
Combining an investigation of freedom and terrorism with all the tension, mystery and allusive richness familiar from Auster's The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Leviathan is an unmissable addition to the canon of 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' (Times Literary Supplement)
'Brownian motion experiment of a plot - chock-a-block with identity-swaps, sideways sweeps and lateral leaps.' Observer
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New York Trilogy
"The New York Trilogy" is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
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Sunset Park
Twenty-eight-year-old Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, an incident that caused him to flee New York seven years previously. Now he lives in Florida, photographing the last traces of families who
have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure during the banking crisis. When a complicated romance forces him to go on the run again, he returns to Brooklyn to confront his father and his past.
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The Brooklyn Follies
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'
So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and, indeed, from life in general.
Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption. Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and of human folly.
'Auster at the top of his game. This superb novel about human folly turns out to be tremendously wise.' New Statesman
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Láthatatlan
Mi tehet az ember, ha egy szerelmi háromszög ördögi körré fajul? Adam Walker ezt a kérdést a saját bőrén tapasztalja meg, amikor húszéves egyetemistaként megismerkedik a titokzatos francia Born professzorral és annak hallgatag, vonzó barátnőjével, Margot-val. A hármuk közötti kapcsolat az elejétől kezdve különös, izgalmas és vészterhes, de Walker nem tud ellenállni a tapasztaltabb emberek csábító világának, majd amikor hirtelen és végérvényesen részévé válik ennek a valóságnak, már nem tud visszakozni. Paul Auster új regénye több elbeszélőn keresztül mutatja a történetet 1967-től 2007-ig, New Yorktól Párizson át a Karib-szigetekig. A történetet, amely fiatalos dühről, zabolátlan szexuális vágyról és az igazságtalanság kíméletlenségéről szól. A történetet, amely bejárja a hazugság és igazság, identitás és képmutatás közti árnyvilágot, megmutatva azt, ami látható, fáradhatatlanul kutatva azt, ami láthatatlan. Talán örökre.
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Mood Palace
Spanning three generations, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit, "Moon Palace" follows an orphan child of the sixties as he seeks the key to his past and the answers to the riddle of his fate.
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Sunset Park
In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure.Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago.What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father that he ahs been avoiding for years.
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Invisible
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and studen at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend 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 his life. Three different narrators tell the story, 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.
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V malej miestnosti s posteľou, písacím stolom a stoličkou (a kde možno je, ale možno nie je šatník) sedí starec. Každý deň sa prebúdza bez jedinej spomienky v hlave, ale s nejasným pocitom viny.
Kto je tento starec? Naozaj sa volá pán Blank? V hlave mu pochoduje procesia prízrakov, na stole čakajú akési fotografie a texty. Bude mať dosť času, aby vyriešil záhady, čo ho obklopujú?
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Putovanie v skriptóriu
V malej miestnosti s posteľou, písacím stolom a stoličkou (a kde možno je, ale možno nie je šatník) sedí starec. Každý deň sa prebúdza bez jedinej spomienky v hlave, ale s nejasným pocitom viny.
Kto je tento starec? Naozaj sa volá pán Blank? V hlave mu pochoduje procesia prízrakov, na stole čakajú akési fotografie a texty. Bude mať dosť času, aby vyriešil záhady, čo ho obklopujú?
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Man in the dark
August Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the long Vermont night...
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Man in the dark
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. Brill gradually opens up to his granddaughter, recounting the story of his marriage and confronting the grim reality of Titus' death. "Man in the Dark" is a novel of our time, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night whilst also celebrating the existence of ordinary joys in a brutal world.
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Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
This charming Christmas fable begins with a dilemma: A writer has been asked by The New York Times to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The man agrees, but he has a problem: How do you write an unsentimental Christmas story? He unburdens himself to his friend at his local cigar shop, a colourful character called Auggie Wren. 'A Christmas story? Is that all?' Auggie counters. 'If you buy me lunch, my friend, I'll tell you the best Christmas story you've ever heard. And I guarantee every word of it is true.' What follows is utterly beguiling - a story involving a blind woman, a lost wallet, and a Christmas dinner - in which everything is turned upside down and the lines between truth and story telling become brilliantly blurred.
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Invisible
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, "Invisible" 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 girlfriend 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 his life. Three different narrators tell the story, 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.
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