4321

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4321

Paul Auster

Medium Paperback

Some wear

Curly corners

March 3, 1947: Archie Ferguson, son of Stanley and Rose, is born in a hospital in New Jersey. This is the only immutable fact in its existence. From that moment on, several paths open up before him, which will lead him to live four parallel, simultaneous and independent lives; to grow up and experience love, friendship, family, art, politics and even death in different ways. And through the multiple intimate plots of each Ferguson, chapter after chapter, we also delve into the broad fresco of turbulent years in the history of the United States.
What would have happened if at some crucial moment in life you had taken a different path? In 4321, his first novel in seven years, Paul Auster exposes some of these questions and invites us to look through a kaleidoscope that offers four sides of the same story. Because every choice, no matter how insignificant, opens some doors and closes others. But what if there is more than one way out and all the paths deserve to be traveled?
Enormously imaginative and absorbing, with an extreme skill in terms of narrative architecture, 4321 is an emotional portrait of a generation, a transition to choral and universal maturity, a family saga. An unforgettable tour de force about the limits of chance and destiny that, as critics have been quick to highlight, is a highlight in the extraordinary literary career of one of the great authors of our times. A classic.

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