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New York Trilogy Series

This trilogy delves into the murky depths of human psychology and identity. Follow protagonists as they descend into labyrinths of mystery, loss, and obsession within the backdrop of a vibrant yet menacing metropolis. Each narrative acts as a mirror, reflecting the fragility of reality and the constant search for meaning in a chaotic world. The series provokes reflection on what defines our existence and the traces we leave behind.

The New York Trilogy
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room
Schimmen
City of glass

Recommended Reading Order

  1. City of glass

    • 260 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Paul Auster, Jahrgang 1947, einer der prominentesten Gegenwartsautoren Amerikas, schaffte seinen literarischen Durchbruch 1985 mit »City of Glass«, dem ersten Roman der »New York Trilogy«, einer brillant erzählten (Kriminal-)Geschichte, in der sich Realität und Fiktion ständig vermischen und in der es nur eine Konstante gibt – den Zufall. »A shatteringly clever piece of work … Utterly gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind.« Sunday Telegraph Englische Lektüre: Niveau C1 (GER) Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch

    City of glass1
    3.8

  2. Schimmen

    • 76 pages
    • 3 hours of reading

    The second book in the acclaimed New York Trilogy--a detective story that becomes a haunting and eerie exploration of identity and deception. It is a story of hidden violence that culminates in an inevitable but unexpectedly shattering climax.

    Schimmen2
    3.5

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  • The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room

    The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster “Exhilarating . . . a brilliant investigation of the storyteller’s art guided by a writer-detective who’s never satisfied with just the facts.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer City of Glass: As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Ghosts: Blue, a student of Brown, has been hired by White to spy on Black. From a window of a rented room on Orange Street, Blue keeps watch on his subject, who is across the street, staring out of his own window. The Locked Room: Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and a cache of extraordinary novels, plays, and poems. What happened to him and why is the narrator, Fanshawe’s boyhood friend, lured obsessively into his life? Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this is a uniquely stylized trilogy of detective novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as “post-existential private eye. . . . It’s as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version.”

    The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room
    3.9

  • The New York Trilogy

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    The contemporary classic from 'our supreme post-modernist' (Ian McEwan) - expanding the possibilities of the noir detective novel - whose writing 'shines with intelligence and originality' (Don DeLillo) The New York Trilogy is the most astonishing work by America's most consistently astonishing writer: three interconnected novels that exploit the riveting elements of classic detective fiction to achieve a radical new genre - a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. The result is the modern novel at its finest which will shock, transfix and astound every reader. 'Marks a new departure for the American novel.' Observer 'A shatteringly clever piece of work . . . Utterly gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind.' Sunday Telegraph 'One of the great American prose stylists of our time.' New York Times 'Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter.' New York Review of Books

    The New York Trilogy
    4.0