'Invisible' by Paul Auster follows the story of Adam Walker, a Columbia University student, who meets a mysterious French benefactor named Rudolf Born and his girlfriend Margot in 1967. A brief but passionate affair with Margot leads to a violent murder, changing the course of Adam's life. The novel weaves together multiple narratives, exploring themes of identity, truth, and the complexities of human relationships. Auster's writing style is captivating, with shifting perspectives and a nonlinear timeline that keeps the reader engaged until the unsettling ending.
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Triggers for the novel include themes of incest, violence, and graphic sexual content.
Has Romance?
The novel contains medium levels of romance, particularly through the complex and fraught relationships involving Adam, Margot, and the theme of incest.
From The Publisher:
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, 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.
Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the Left Bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers."
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About the Author:
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Sunset Park, Invisible, Man in the Dark, Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, and Oracle Night. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was a national bestseller. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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