Writer Sidney Orr is recovering from a serious illness. Buying a blue Portuguese notebook from a Chinese stationery store in Brooklyn and starting to write his new novel in it, he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of mysterious events that threaten the strength of his marriage and his very faith in reality. Why does his wife break down in an inexplicable hysteria on the same day, when does he open the blue notebook for the first time? Why does the Chinese stationery shop disappear without a trace the next day, as if it never existed? What is the connection between the 1938 Warsaw telephone directory and a lost novel whose hero can predict the future? Can forgiveness be considered the highest expression of love? All this is discussed in the novel by the famous Paul Auster, author of the intellectual bestsellers “The Book of Illusions”, “Mr. Vertigo”, “The New York Trilogy”, “Timbuktu”, “Temple of the Moon”, etc.< /p>