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In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work and tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a lifelong friendship. This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.

'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY 'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love' SARAH WATERS 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' DAVID MITCHELL 'Essential reading from an all-time great' SARA COLLINS Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a...

Als er im Sterben lag, sagte Paul Auster seiner Frau, er wolle ein Geist werden. Und das ist er für Siri Hustvedt geworden: eine allzeit spürbare Präsenz, schmerzlich und tröstlich zugleich. Sie trägt seine Jacke, sie meint seine Zigarillos im Haus zu riechen, sie liest seine Bücher von neuem. Und zum ersten Mal seit langer Zeit liest sie ihre eigenen Liebesbriefe, vom Beginn einer gemeinsamen Geschichte, die 43 Jahre währen sollte. Mit ihrem beispiellosen Trauer-, Gedächtnis- und Liebesbuch nähert sie sich dem unmöglichen Wunsch, Paul zu neuem Leben zu erwecken.

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris...

'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 'A great mind that is constantly exploring, searching, "becoming" . . . an impressive collection' Elif Shafak...

The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great writers and thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever. The result is a fresh, multifaceted reassessment of Freud's continuing relevance and influence on ideas, literature, culture, science, and more.

'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker...

From the internationally bestselling, Man Booker Prize-longlisted Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious...

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who...

"Minder om fremtiden" er en overdådig roman om tid, erindring, lyst og fantasi. "Minder om fremtiden" fortæller historien om den unge forfatterspire S.H. fra Minnesota og hendes første år i New York i slutningen af 1970‘erne. Hun bor i en faldefærdig ejendom og er besat af sin mystiske nabo, Lucy Brite, hvis rablende monologer hun følger gennem de papirtynde vægge og nedskriver i sin notesbog. Hvad er der galt med hende?

Novelists Egan ( The Keep), Hustvedt ( The Sorrows of an American), and Livesey ( The House on Fortune Street) along with actress Hope Davis --the group that entertainingly and illuminatingly explored Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice at this book club--return by popular demand to revisit George Eliot's classic.

Ehrlich, erfrischend komisch und tief berührend; Die New Yorker Dichterin Mia und der bekannte Neurowissenschaftler Boris haben eine Ehekrise. Boris möchte eine "Pause". Mia stellt fest, dass die Pause vollere Brüste hat als sie und überdies Boris’ Laborassistentin ist. Nach einem Nervenzusammenbruch braucht sie eine Pause, fährt allein in ihre Geburtsstadt Bowden, Minnesota, mietet ein möbliertes Haus und verbringt den Sommer in der Nähe ihrer fast neunzigjährigen Mutter.

Karen Joy Fowler, author of the best-selling The Jane Austen Book Club, joins other Austen enthusiasts including novelists Siri Hustvedt and Jennifer Egan to celebrate the work of one of English literature's best-loved authors. In connection with Penguin Classics' 60th Anniversary release of Jane Austen: The Complete Novels: Classic Deluxe Edition, this lively discussion will span the vivid characters, biting satire, and delicious romance of Austen's six novels. Selections read by Hope Davis.

“A spectacularly good read...feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex or Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.” —Slate From the internationally bestselling author of The Summer Without Men comes “an...

A searing memoir of love and grief centered around the loss of Siri Hustvedt’s husband, Paul Auster. Ghost Stories is an intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written after the death of Siri Hustvedt’s husband, Paul Auster. The book includes personal, never-before-seen...

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this “profound” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted—between ourselves and others, nature...

A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World. A young woman, S.H., moves to New York City in 1978 to look for adventure and write her first novel, but finds herself distracted by...

Forfatterens personlige beretning om sit forsøg på at få stillet en diagnose på sine ukontrollable rystelser, der starter under en mindetale, hun holder for sin afdøde far. Sygehistorien iblandes en neurovidenskabelig, litterær og filosofisk analyse af forholdet mellem krop og sind og af hvordan sygdom kan gå ind i vores identitetsopfattelse. Siri Hustvedt (f. 1955) er opvokset i Minnesota i USA med norsk-amerikanske forældre. Hun har en ph.d.

Harriet Burden ist die Frau eines einflussreichen New Yorker Galeristen. Nach dessen vorzeitigem Tod beginnt sie ein heimliches Experiment: eine Karriere als Installationskünstlerin, die sich hinter dem angeblichen Werk dreier männlicher "Masken" verbirgt, das in Wahrheit sie selbst erschaffen hat. Doch der Faustische Handel schlägt fehl - einer dieser Maskenmänner, selbst ein bekannter Künstler, durchkreuzt ihr Rollenspiel und setzt sein eigenes dagegen. Es kommt zum Kampf zweier widerstreitender großer Geister - einem Kampf auf Leben und Tod.

New Yorker-forfatteren Mia har haft et alvorligt sammenbrud efter at hendes mand gennem 30 år, Boris, vil have en pause. "Pausen" viser sig at være en 20 år yngre fransk kollega. For at få det hele på afstand tager Mia til sin hjemby Bonden i Minnesota, hvor hendes mor stadig bor. Sådan begynder Mias sommer uden mænd. Hun raser og sørger over sit tab, men bliver også involveret i livet omkring sig. Hun møder sin mors jævnaldrende veninder og indser, at livsgnist, humor og vid ikke forsvinder med alderen. Hun knytter sig til sin unge nabo og hendes to små børn. Og hun bliver ansat som lærer på