by Nicole Krauss · W W Norton & Co Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393340648
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In 'Great House', Nicole Krauss weaves a poignant story about memory, loss, and the search for permanence in a constantly changing world. Through characters interconnected by a desk with multiple drawers, the novel explores how the past influences the present and how objects can become symbols of what we have lost. From a solitary American novelist to an antique dealer in Jerusalem, each character faces profound questions about heritage, identity, and the ability to create meaning amidst destruction and disappearance.
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.
