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Auster's Booker Prize-shortlisted epic from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy : 'a literary voice for the ages' ( Guardian ) 'A masterpiece.' Daily Mail 'Absorbing and immersive . . . the author's greatest novel.' FT SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous but entirely different paths. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself. 'Remarkable . . . A novel that contains multitudes.' New York Times 'A vast portrait of the turbulent mid-20th century . . . wonderfully, vividly conveyed.' New Statesman

Auster's Booker Prize-shortlisted epic from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy : 'a literary voice for the ages' ( Guardian ) 'A masterpiece.' Daily Mail 'Absorbing and immersive . . . the author's greatest novel.' FT SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous but entirely different paths. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself. 'Remarkable . . . A novel that contains multitudes.' New York Times 'A vast portrait of the turbulent mid-20th century . . . wonderfully, vividly conveyed.' New Statesman

Den 3. marts1947 fødes Archibald Isaac Ferguson i New Jersey. Fra denne dag forgrenes fortællingen om Archibald i fire forskellige retninger. Fire drenge, som egentlig er den samme dreng, vokser op og lever parallelle, men helt forskellige liv. For hvilke valg og tilfældigheder afgør, hvilken retning ens liv tager? 4321 tager læseren med fra den søvnige forstad til det myldrende Manhattan og kunstnernes Paris. Fra sportsdrømme til forfatterambitioner. Fra 50'ernes tro på fremtiden til 60'ernes Kennedy-mord, Vietnamkrig, borgerrettighedsbevægelse og en hel generations knuste drømme. 4321 er en storslået roman om en ung mand, der bliver voksen i et Amerika i forandring.