Ghost Stories
A Memoir - 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' David Mitchell
Sinopsis
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
A beautifully moving story... we defy you to read the deathbed scene without tearing up
SUNDAY TIMES, Summer reading: best memoir
Sorrowful, tender, candid, even funny, Ghost Stories is a book about death that brims with life, in all its misery and joy
DAILY MAIL
I was bowled over by Siri Hustvedts Ghost Stories, a gorgeous, poignant memoir of her life with Paul Auster, written in the rawness of the wake of his death
SARAH WATERS, GUARDIAN, Summer reading
The delight to be found in Hustvedts 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
OBSERVER
A profound and forthright meditation on love and loss, unique in our literature
INDEPENDENT
Genuinely moving...Hustvedts book is like Didions The Year of Magical Thinking in tone...a grainy and resonant book about loneliness, despair, and confusion. Its close to a howl
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedts 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 Pauls 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 first wife and son.
The book also contains Paul Austers last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siris and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1 January 2024.
Unflinching, tender and wise, this is the full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Austers life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday.
A remarkable achievement
LOUISE KENNEDY
What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love
DAVID MITCHELL
Essential reading from an all-time great
SARA COLLINS
Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom
Salman Rushdie
It is Hustvedts gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear
Hilary Mantel
Shes a twenty-first-century Virginia Woolf, with many intellectual and creative rooms of her own
Literary Review
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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: Sceptre
ISBN: 9781399753869
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 05/05/2026
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