Historias de fantasmas

On his deathbed, Paul Auster told his wife that he wanted to become a ghost, to return to see how she was, what she was writing after his departure, or how his grandson Miles was growing up. And that is what he has become for Siri Hustvedt: an ever-present and comforting presence, whether in the scent of his tobacco at home, in immersing herself in his books, or in recalling a love story and intellectual communion that lasted forty-three years. In her most personal work, Hustvedt reconstructs her legendary union with him through the heart-wrenching texture of grief and the solace of eternal love. Halfway between a diary and a literary narrative, the text draws on invaluable previously unpublished documents, from the notes they exchanged over decades to Paul Auster's final writings in the form of letters to his grandson.