{"product_id":"9780571384952","title":"Baumgartner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e(\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor – has just forgotten on the stove.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRich with compassion, wit, and Auster’s keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaumgartner\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a luminous work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e–\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea tender final masterpiece from one of the world’s greatest writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Times","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51499490574582,"sku":"9780571384952","price":68.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/81z3CFCidJL._SL1500.jpg?v=1787369790","url":"https:\/\/shop.litbooks.com.my\/products\/9780571384952","provider":"Lit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}