A contemporary classic and one of the works that established Paul Auster as an international bestseller. Three sides of the same story with which the American writer reinvented the detective genre.
In City of Glass, a crime novelist accidentally becomes the protagonist of a real investigation and finds himself acting as a detective through the streets of the city of skyscrapers while questioning who he really is. In Ghosts, Blue is hired by White to follow Black at all times, which leads him to get lost in a maze of questions where it is unclear who is chasing whom. In The Locked Room, the main character is tasked with finding a missing childhood friend who left behind a suitcase full of unpublished manuscripts he wanted to be published.
Three stories, three detectives, three sides of the same coin. The masterful short novels that make up The New York Trilogy have turned this book into a contemporary classic that reinvents the detective genre and invites readers to participate in a game of mirrors and identities.
Paul Auster received unanimous critical and public acclaim with this work considered "a new starting point for the American novel" (The Observer) and which led to comparisons with masters like Samuel Beckett and Raymond Chandler.
The Singular Contemporánea collection from Austral revives great 20th-century classics very different from each other: from A Clockwork Orange or Perfume to If This Is a Man or The New York Trilogy. Dystopia, historical memory, European short novels, or science fiction in one carefully curated and recognizable library. A way to bring together essential readings in current editions.
