Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, 'Invisible' opens in New York City 1967, when 21 year-old Adam Walker meets Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

In the summer of 1990, a man blows himself up by the side of the road in Wisconsin. Peter Aaron believes he knows who the man was, and the FBI soon arrive at his door to interrogate him. So begin's Aaron's narration of the life of Benjamin Sachs, a writer whose obsession with freedom and the American dream turns his mind to terror.

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a Brooklyn stationery shop and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18th, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, within a world of eerie premonitions.

One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions and unexpected love.

In 'The Brooklyn Follies' an uncle and nephew accidentally end up living in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood. When a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that may offer them the possibility of redemption.

Paul Auster's three stories explore the nature of identity. He uses the detective, spy and friendship genres as vehicles to delve into the relationships between different groups of people.

Presents the abandonment of the family by author's father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled later years and, finally, her death - and the subsequent anxiety attacks Auster suffered in the face of her death.

The first section of this book reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his grandfather then the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator contemplates the solitary nature of story-telling and writing.

The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks in whispers," Auster writes. "One must draw very close to hear what he is saying."

'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts'. Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in 'Winter Journal', Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, 'Report from the Interior' charts Auster's moral,...