{"product_id":"ghost-stories-2","title":"Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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 through the highs and lows of love, family and grief'The delight to be found in Hustvedt's book arises because so much of the landscape revealed is one of love. Love of life, love of the world, love of family... Ghost Stories will console you for the losses you have suffered, and for the ones you know - we all know - are yet to come'OBSERVER'A profound and forthright meditation on love and loss, unique in our literature'INDEPENDENT'Rich with accounts of their life together'SUNDAY TIMES'Distinctive and genuinely moving'NEW YORK TIMESGhost 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: 320\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 10: 1399753843\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 13: 9781399753845\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siri Hustvedt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53159894089994,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781399753845.jpg?v=1780658252","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/ghost-stories-2","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}