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Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." --Philip Roth"One of America's most important novelists" (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interw ...Show more
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE OBSERVER, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND THE TIMES'Lucid and exhilarating ... A great gift' New York Review of Books'Tantalizes and compels ... A welcome reminder of how a novel can be defiantly and brilliantly novel' Douglas Kenn ...Show more
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling, twice-Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a tale of transformation; a richly layered masterpiece' (Financial Times) A brilliant novel ' Philip RothImpossible to put down ' IndependentDazzling ' GuardianJules Epstein has vanished from the world. He l ...Show more
Great House by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
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 terrible secret ...In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer reassem ...Show more
Great House by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
For twenty-five years, a solitary American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's life reeling. Across the ocean, in th ...Show more
Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by "Esquire magazine as "one of America's best young writers." Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home, she fi ...Show more
Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumour saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of ...Show more
The History Of Love: Penguin Essentials by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
This Book is Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006. Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When I was born my mother named ...Show more
The History of Love by NICOLE KRAUSS
Category: Fiction
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he s still alive. But it wasn t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book. . . . Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in th ...Show more
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wa ...Show more
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Category: Fiction
ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.New York Times Bestseller Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writin Winner of the Borders Origi ...Show more