Nicole Krauss: Great House

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 aga...

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A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.

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[An] elegiac novel . . . achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity.-Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The New York Times Book Review (front page)

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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...

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In New York a woman spends a night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her 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 te...

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