{"product_id":"ghost-stories-3","title":"Ghost Stories","description":"One of the most anticipated books of 2026 for the Guardian, Observer and BBC Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4\u003e'A remarkable achievement'\u003cbr\u003eLOUISE KENNEDY'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love'\u003cbr\u003eSARAH WATERS'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love'\u003cbr\u003eDAVID MITCHELL'Essential reading from an all-time great'\u003cbr\u003eSARA COLLINS\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 to his death in 2024\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGhost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's 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 Paul's 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 Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's 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 Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday.\u003ch4\u003ePraise for Siri Hustvedt\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e'She's a twenty-first-century Virginia Woolf, with many intellectual and creative rooms of her own'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57600629276998,"sku":"9781399753852","price":17.67,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/3690f6ce746824083e2d550c2ecbb16dca3200924668336b70d98bbefbceb19c.jpg?v=1792044271","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/en\/products\/ghost-stories-3","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}