Great House
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
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A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
Klappentext zu „Great House “
For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared.
Autoren-Porträt von Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss wurde 1974 in New York, USA, geboren. Sie studierte Englische Literatur in Stanford und Oxford. "Die Geschichte der Liebe" ist ihr zweiter Roman nach "Man Walks Into a Room" und einigen Lyrikveröffentlichungen. Sie ist mit Jonathan Safran Foer verheiratet und lebt in New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nicole Krauss
- 2011, 304 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 21,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Norton
- ISBN-10: 0393340643
- ISBN-13: 9780393340648
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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[Krauss] writes of her characters' despair with striking lucidity...an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning. --Sam Sacks
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