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An edition of Great House (2010)

Great house

1st ed.
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Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.

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Language
English
Pages
289

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La grande maison: roman
2011 April, Boréal
Paperback in French
Cover of: Great House
Great House
2011, W. W. Norton & Co.
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Great House
2010, W. W. Norton & Company
Epub in English - First Edition
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Great house
2010, W. W. Norton & Co., W.W. Norton & Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Great House
Great House
2010, W. W. Norton & Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Great House
Great House
2010, W. W. Norton & Co.
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3611.R38 G74 2010, PS3611.R38G74 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
289 p. ;
Number of pages
289

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24777145M
Internet Archive
greathouse00krau
ISBN 10
0393079988
ISBN 13
9780393079982
LCCN
2010029946
OCLC/WorldCat
601096650

Work Description

For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean 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 the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.

Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and 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.

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