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Paperback edition of Auster's dazzling novel set between the present day and 1967. With three different narrators, the action moves through time and across countries, including America, France and the Caribbean. Auster's most commercial book to date, this will be backed by a consumer advertising campaign. 'A scintillating story of sex and obsession... you'll want to finish it in one sitting.' "Tatler"
Synopsis
In the spring of 1967 a twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student 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.
