by Nicole Krauss · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9783498035532
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«Das grosse Haus» is Nicole Krauss's novel, published by FisicalBook in hardcover (374 pages, in German).
A New York writer keeps the desk given to her by a Chilean who died under Pinochet's dictatorship. A young woman claiming to be his daughter demands it back, and the writer travels to Israel in her wake, where she finds a man reconstructing the study of an uncle murdered by the Nazis. A novel about secrets, loss, and memory.
Translated from the English by Grete Osterwald; original title 'Great House' (2010). Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs, with a plot that interweaves historical memory and exploration of family bonds.
Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.
