Ghost Stories

A Memoir

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br><br>The tender memoir of the forty-three years Siri Hustvedt spent with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster - from their first encounter in 1980s New York through the highs and lows of love, family and grief<br>'A beautifully moving story... we defy you to read the deathbed scene without tearing up' <br>SUNDAY TIMES, Summer reading: best memoir <br>'Sorrowful, tender, candid, even funny, Ghost Stories is a book about death that brims with life, in all its misery and joy' <br>DAILY MAIL <br><br>'I was bowled over by Siri Hustvedt's Ghost Stories, a gorgeous, poignant memoir of her life with Paul Auster, written in the rawness of the wake of his death' <br>SARAH WATERS, GUARDIAN, Summer reading <br>'The delight to be found in Hustvedt's book arises because so much of the landscape revealed is one of love. It will console you for the losses you have suffered, and for the ones you know - we all know - are yet to come'<br>OBSERVER'A profound and forthright meditation on love and loss, unique in our literature'<br>INDEPENDENT<br><br>'Genuinely moving...Hustvedt's book is like Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking in tone...a grainy and resonant book about loneliness, despair, and confusion. It's close to a howl'<br>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<br><br>Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.It is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between November 2023 and 3 May 2024, the day of Paul's funeral; emails Siri sent to friends during his cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his fi

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781399753845

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

226 x 144 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.