Invisible

Frühling 1967 in New York. Der zwanzigjährige Student Adam Walker trifft auf den enigmatischen Franzosen Rudolf Born und dessen stille, aber verführerische Freundin Margot. Schon bald sieht er sich verstrickt in eine eigentümliche Dreiecksgeschichte, die in einem traumatisierenden Akt der Gewalt gipfelt und sein Leben für immer verändern wird. Aus der Sicht dreier Erzähler, über einen Zeitraum von 40 Jahre, berichtet dieses kraftvolle Werk über den Zorn der Jugend, ungezügelte Lust und die gnadenlose Jagd nach Gerechtigkeit. Auster beweist sich wieder als einer der besten Autoren unserer Zeit.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 his life.§§Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.'