Présentation de l'éditeur
* * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * *Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus Reviews, Huffington Post, and The Spectator UK
"An epic bildungsroman . . . .
Original and complex . . . . A
monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that
contains multitudes."--
Tom Perrotta,
The New York Times Book Review
"A
stunningly ambitious novel, and
a pleasure to read. . . . An
incredibly moving, true journey."
--NPR
New York Times Bestseller,
Los Angeles Times Bestseller,
Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller
Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel--a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself.
Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on.
As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before.
4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.
Biographie de l'auteur
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of
4 3 2 1,
Sunset Park,
Invisible,
The Book of Illusions, and the New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis étranger for
Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of
Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for
Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He has also been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (
The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (
The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (
City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (
4 3 2 1). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
