Book description
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens
in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam
Walker, an aspiring poet and studen at Columbia University meets the
enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive
girlfriend 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, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New
York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled
sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising
insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and
memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable
power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most
spectacularly inventive writers.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in the United States
in 1947. After attending Columbia University, he lived in France for
four years. Since 1974 he has published poems, essays, novels,
screenplays and translations. He was the editor of the short story
anthology, True Tales of American Life. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
