{"product_id":"ghost-stories-a-memoir","title":"Ghost Stories: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnflinching, 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Oversized paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1399753851\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781399753852\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siri Hustvedt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52993391264010,"sku":null,"price":20.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781399753852.jpg?v=1777975184","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/ghost-stories-a-memoir","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}