by Nicole Krauss · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408871850
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«To Be a Man» is Nicole Krauss's collection of short stories, published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Ten stories trace decisive moments in the lives of women and men: from youth to old age, from desire to power and violence, from regret to regeneration. The stories travel from Switzerland and Japan to New York, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and South America, and portray family bonds, lovers and the difficult task of knowing oneself.
The work was originally published in 2020 and this paperback edition appeared in 2021. The collection won the Wingate Literary Prize 2022.
Suitable for readers of short fiction and contemporary literary fiction interested in the female condition.
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.
