{"title":"Paul Auster","description":"Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His most recent novel, 4 3 2 1, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.","products":[{"product_id":"baumgartner-paperback","title":"Baumgartner - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and \"one of the great American prose stylists of our time\" \u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has just forgotten on the stove.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaumgartner'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 forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, \u003cem\u003eBaumgartner\u003c\/em\u003e asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force\u003cem\u003e 4 3 2 1\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103722082527,"sku":"9780802163554","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VF6VuX7jGf9780802163554.webp?v=1781097505"},{"product_id":"in-the-country-of-last-things-paperback","title":"In the Country of Last Things - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the forthcoming \u003ci\u003e4 3 2 1: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e - a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survival\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003eTimes-bestselling author Paul Auster (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy)\u003c\/i\u003e shows us a disturbing Hobbesian society in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104825970911,"sku":"9780140097054","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/z8aLL5cq2Y9780140097054.webp?v=1781111397"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/paul-auster.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}