Great House by Nicole Krauss
From the internationally best-selling author of The History of Love comes this stunning novel. Great House follows the multiple owners of one writing desk and how the desk shapes their lives. A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife. And a Jerusalem antiques dealer uses the desk in his family's study, which was devastated by the Nazis in 1944.
"One of America’s most important novelists and an international literary sensation" -- Sam Tanenhaus - New York Times Book Review
"[Krauss] writes of her characters’ despair with striking lucidity…an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal
"Ambitious, disturbing, brave, provocative." -- Joan Frank - San Francisco Chronicle
"Sweeps you up…beautiful and mysterious." -- Ann Harleman - Boston Globe
"Although most of her characters are prisoners of the past, Krauss herself is a fiction pioneer, toying with fresh ways of rendering experience and emotion, giving us readers the thrill of seeing the novel stretched into amorphous new shapes." -- Maureen Corrigan - NPR's Fresh Air
"Reminds us what it means to be alive." -- Rachel Rosenblit - Elle
"A novel brimming with insights into the human psyche…often haunting and ultimately rewarding." -- Monica Rhor - Associated Press
"Delayed revelation is one of the author’s signatures, and in this, her third novel, she manages it with satisfying élan…Krauss’s organic scenes soar, she is stunning." -- Karen R. Long - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Exquisite…Krauss is a poetic stylist whose prose gives tremendous weight to her characters’ pain and struggles." -- Sharon Dilworth - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Krauss has a unique way of assembling novels—baroque, complex, and with stunning tidiness that isn’t clear until the very last page. All the parts do fit together in the end. The shape they form is the ghastly Great House, and its walls are ideas that leave the reader reverberating." -- The Atlantic
"A complex, richly imagined new novel…Krauss’s talent runs deep. And she cannot write a bad sentence: pound for pound, the sentences alone deliver epiphany upon epiphany." -- Janet Byrne - Huffington Post
"Krauss’ masterful rendition of character is breathtaking, compelling.… This tour de force of fiction writing will deeply satisfy fans of the author’s first two books and bring her legions more." -- Booklist (starred review)
"Stunning…I was captivated by the first chapter and never disappointed thereafter. The richness of invention, the beauty of the prose, the aptness of her central images, the depth of feeling: who would not be moved?" -- Andrea Barrett
"Full of cogent insights…an exercise in kaleidoscopic storytelling, a novel that seeks to weave four groups of characters into a larger meditation on memory and loss." -- David L. Ulin - Los Angeles Times
"[Krauss] writes of her characters’ despair with striking lucidity…an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal
"Ambitious, disturbing, brave, provocative." -- Joan Frank - San Francisco Chronicle
"Sweeps you up…beautiful and mysterious." -- Ann Harleman - Boston Globe
"Although most of her characters are prisoners of the past, Krauss herself is a fiction pioneer, toying with fresh ways of rendering experience and emotion, giving us readers the thrill of seeing the novel stretched into amorphous new shapes." -- Maureen Corrigan - NPR's Fresh Air
"Reminds us what it means to be alive." -- Rachel Rosenblit - Elle
"A novel brimming with insights into the human psyche…often haunting and ultimately rewarding." -- Monica Rhor - Associated Press
"Delayed revelation is one of the author’s signatures, and in this, her third novel, she manages it with satisfying élan…Krauss’s organic scenes soar, she is stunning." -- Karen R. Long - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Exquisite…Krauss is a poetic stylist whose prose gives tremendous weight to her characters’ pain and struggles." -- Sharon Dilworth - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Krauss has a unique way of assembling novels—baroque, complex, and with stunning tidiness that isn’t clear until the very last page. All the parts do fit together in the end. The shape they form is the ghastly Great House, and its walls are ideas that leave the reader reverberating." -- The Atlantic
"A complex, richly imagined new novel…Krauss’s talent runs deep. And she cannot write a bad sentence: pound for pound, the sentences alone deliver epiphany upon epiphany." -- Janet Byrne - Huffington Post
"Krauss’ masterful rendition of character is breathtaking, compelling.… This tour de force of fiction writing will deeply satisfy fans of the author’s first two books and bring her legions more." -- Booklist (starred review)
"Stunning…I was captivated by the first chapter and never disappointed thereafter. The richness of invention, the beauty of the prose, the aptness of her central images, the depth of feeling: who would not be moved?" -- Andrea Barrett
"Full of cogent insights…an exercise in kaleidoscopic storytelling, a novel that seeks to weave four groups of characters into a larger meditation on memory and loss." -- David L. Ulin - Los Angeles Times
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America’s most important novelists." She is the author of Man Walks Into a Room, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; The History of Love, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Saroyan Prize for International Literature; Great House, a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award; Forest Dark; and most recently, To Be a Man: Stories. In 2007 she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen for the New Yorker’s ‘Twenty Under Forty’ list. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393340648 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393340643 |
| Title | Great House |
| Author | Nicole Krauss |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2011-06-10 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of New York Times Notable Selection 2010, Short-listed for National Book Award 2010 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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