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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011, Nicole Krauss's Great House is a haunting story that explores loss and memory. In New York a woman spends the night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her at his desk. Later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police. . . In north London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. . . In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer reassembles his father's study plundered by Nazis. One item remains missing. . . Spanning continents and decades, weaving an intricate web of its characters' lives, Great House tells a soaring story of love, loss and survival against the odds.'The History of Love was very good indeed. Great House...is even better. A heartbreaking meditation on loss and memory and how they construct our lives' Guardian'Full of mystery and suspense, building towards one og th great climaxes in contemporary fiction. It is hard to imagine a better book of fiction being published this year...one of the finest writers of our time' Jewish Chronicle'Bewitching, mysterious and deeply moving. One of 2011's must-reads' Harper's BazaarNicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three novels: Great House, The History of Love (Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger) and Man Walks into a Room (shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award), all of which are available in Penguin paperback.Read More

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    During the winter of 1972 a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he departs New York leaving her his desk. It is the only time they ever meet. Two years later he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police and never seen again. Across the ocean in the leafy suburbs of London a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair among her papers that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem an antiques dealer has spent a lifetime reassembling his father's study plundered by the Nazis from Budapest in 1944; now only one item remains to be found. ; ; Connecting these lives is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away. And as the narrators of Great House make their confessions this desk comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them and all that binds them to what has disappeared. ; ; Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance destruction and change? ; ; Nicole Krauss has written a soaring powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss. ;

  • ASDA

    In New York a woman spends a night with a young Chilean poet before he departs leaving her his desk... In north London a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret ...In Jerusalem an antiques dealer reassembles his father's study plundered by the Nazis. One item remains missing...

  • BookDepository

    Great House : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780670919345 : 0670919349 : 16 Jun 2011 : Tells a haunting story that explores loss and memory. Spanning continents and decades, and weaving an intricate web of its characters' lives, this book is about love, loss and survival against the odds.

  • Blackwell

    Tells a haunting story that explores loss and memory. Spanning continents and decades, and weaving an intricate web of its characters' lives, this book is about love, loss and survival against the odds. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction...

  • 0670919349
  • 9780670919345
  • Nicole Krauss
  • 22 April 2011
  • Viking
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
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