The coming-of-age story dazzlingly reinvented, in Auster's most passionate and surprising book to date. In the spring of 1967 Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend. Walker soon finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.