A delicate masterpiece of love, memory, and loss from one of the greatest writers in the world. The life of Sy Baumgartner, a respected author and soon-to-be-retired philosophy professor, has been shaped by his deep, abiding love for his wife Anna. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner enters his seventies as he tries to cope with her absence. Yet Anna's voice is still present everywhere, in every spiral of memory and reflection, in every recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared. Rich in compassion, wit, and an eye for the beauty in the smallest, most fleeting episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is one of Auster's most radiant works – a delicate late masterpiece of the pain of memory.