by Nicole Krauss · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141021157
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«Man Walks into a Room» is the contemporary fiction novel by Nicole Krauss, published by Penguin Books in paperback (248 pages, in English).
Samson Greene, a Columbia professor, is found wandering the Nevada desert with no memory of his name. After surgery to remove a brain tumor, he survives but loses all memories formed after the age of twelve. Freed from everything that once defined him, he agrees to take part in a bold scientific experiment that leads to a revelation about the human condition.
First novel by Nicole Krauss, published on March 29, 2007 and also classified as psychological fiction.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction who value stories about identity, memory and loss.
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.
