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Ghost Stories

A Memoir - 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' David Mitchell

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Yazan: Siri Hustvedt
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 'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY

'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love' SARAH WATERS

'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' DAVID MITCHELL

'Essential reading from an all-time great' SARA COLLINS

Ghost 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.

It 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.

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A truly wonderful book. Hustvedt's gift is to be able to write about the most searing of emotions with extraordinary insight, measure and beauty. The result is a deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love. (Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith)
Ghost Stories is a year of grief spun into wise, truthful gold. What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love. (David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas)
All love stories must end as ghost stories. So we are reminded in Siri Hustvedt's tremendously moving portrait of a man, a marriage, and the joys and sorrows of a shared artistic life. Love and grief lie, inseparable, on every page. This is essential reading from an all-time great. (Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton)
Tender, elegiac and erudite, Ghost Stories is a paean to love and to its ultimate expression - grief. A remarkable achievement (Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses)
Both a work of intimate reflection and a moving tribute to the 43 years she and Auster shared . . . a profound and forthright meditation on love and loss, unique in our literature . . . Ghost Stories has laughter and tears; it's a wonderful celebration of his spirit . . . For now, in dark times, we have Ghost Stories. Some will see it as a love letter to Paul Auster. Actually, more interesting than that, it's an account of a widow falling in love again, but with a ghost. (Robert McCrum)
This book is cohesive, melancholy, distinctive and genuinely moving . . . Hustvedt writes so intimately about their physical and intellectual companionship that she makes you feel, in a way not all memoirists can, the dimensions of the crater he left behind . . . Ghost Stories is almost exactly my kind of thing. It's a grainy and resonant book about loneliness, despair and confusion. It's close to a howl. (Dwight Garner)
A howl of grief for the loss of a husband, father and grandfather
Rich with accounts of their life together
Ghost Stories is, in a sense, a collaboration: sandwiched between Hustvedt's funny, desperately sad account of her husband's sickness are passages written by Auster in the final months of his life in the form of letters to his baby grandson. Literary history is full of talented writer couples, but few seem to have achieved the balance, mutual respect and happy productivity of Hustvedt and Auster. (Susie Goldsbrough)
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This had me gripped from the first paragraph until the last page. Touching, loving, heartbreaking but heart warming. This must be what it’s like to be truly loved, and to have truly loved.

The honesty, emotional intelligence, and observation of a full life loved and lived.

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Very moving and honest account of Siri’s experience of her life with Paul Auster and how his illness and subsequent death affected her. She uses her extensive reading on psychology and neuroscience to shed light on Grief and how it affects her.
It’s moving and painful of course but as a grieving widower of 20 years it resonates with my own experiences and I give her huge credit for sharing such a personal and powerful story. Paul Auster is one of my very favourite writers and it was a privilege to get insights into his life and death. It’s a love story with a sad ending but of course to have such a wonderful 43 year marriage is something that is a wonderful achievement and I would love her to write an update on how her grief develops and changes.

Very moving and honest account of grief and love

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
I'll confess, I was a fan of Paul's work, not Siri's when I started listening. But I so enjoyed my time in her company, I intend to seek out previous books. Theirs was a love for the ages, a marriage that sustained them during the most difficult of times. Hustvedt is fiercely intelligent, and her political reflections are as engaging as the many, many personal anecdotes shared here.
My one complaint, is that the start of each chapter comes far too quickly after the end of the last one. They don't even leave a beat. This book is so beautifully shaped, the final sentence of each chapter needs 5-6 seconds to breath before we plunge into the next one. Hopefully, somebody with the capacity to change that will read this review and alter it!

A wonderful reflection on a long, love-filled marriage

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I’m so sorry this book has ended. What a brave and beautiful record of an amazing couple who in the end were as ordinary at the end as the next couple. Inspite of a fight by all concerned, Paul died. But what imaginative and creative ways of recording and sharing their lives, love and legacy. The mix of love, success and the most tragic loss of their granddaughter, addictions affect on their lives and family. Also how good and thoughtful the love of their daughter and Paul’s letters written to his baby grandson. Fascinating insight into Norwegian, immigrant culture and the concern at present day Trumps devastating American,waring politics. Well done Siri you’ve done Paul proud, and yourself xx

Poignant love story to the end

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This book is so much more than a relational biography. It is the very intimate and personal story of Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedts life together. Yet, in these detailed , individual, biographic descriptions , you find yourself and your life, your feelings and thoughts. The personal becomes shared reality. The author enlarges the possibility to feel, think and speak about your lifestory and relations, and of course deep grief connected to the loss of a loved one who became a big part of your self after years together.

Bodily dephts and intellectual sharpness

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