BaumgartnerA 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" New York Times Paul Austers 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. Baumgartners life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his

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authorial sleight of hand

It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his “Favorite”―the farmer’s daughter

and the work acts as a larger historical document

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“A triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing conflict

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“incendiary” by the New York Times

Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature