Cover art for Baumgartner
Published
Faber Fiction, November 2023
ISBN
9780571384945
Format
Softcover, 208 pages
Dimensions
21.6cm × 13.5cm × 1.4cm

Baumgartner A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers. by

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Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory. It asks: why do we find such meaning in certain moments, and forget others?

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