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Paul Auster’s narrator recovers from a serious accident and discovers renewed inspiration by purchasing a blue Portuguese notebook. Soon, as his prose flows, unsettling changes begin to affect his beloved wife, the boundaries between his fiction and the real world blur, and the stationery shop where he bought the notebook vanishes overnight.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Psychological Fiction/Psychological Drama
Authors: Paul Auster
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