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Invisible

Paul Auster

2009256 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009Henry Holt and Co. · ENGISBN 9780805090802
  • 2010Actes Sud · 293 pages · ENGISBN 9782742789207
  • 2010Faber & Faber, Limited · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780571249527
  • 2010Faber and Faber · 384 pagesISBN 9780571249510
  • 2009Edicions 62 · 256 pagesISBN 9788429763638
  • 2019Booket · 304 pagesISBN 9788432234613
  • 2017labutxaca · 256 pagesISBN 9788417031107
  • 2010Picador · 320 pagesISBN 9780312429829

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 a student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker is caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

How it feels

Emotional toneUnflinching

How it reads

Plot intensityCharacter driven
Character focusSmall ensemble
ComplexityLayered

Worth knowing

Romance levelCentral
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