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An edition of Great House (2010)

La grande maison

roman

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Un immense bureau d’acajou sert d’écritoire à une romancière américaine pendant un quart de siècle. Elle l’a reçu en héritage d’un jeune poète chilien, disparu entre les mains de la police secrète de Pinochet. Un jour, une jeune femme prétendant être la fille du poète se présente à sa porte et réclame le bureau, privant la vie de la romancière de son centre de gravité. De l’autre côté de l’océan, un homme qui accompagne sa femme vers la mort découvre, au milieu des papiers de celle-ci, une boucle de cheveux qui lui révèle un terrible secret. À Jérusalem, un antiquaire reconstitue peu à peu la bibliothèque de son père, dont le mobilier avait été dispersé par la nazis, à Budapest, en 1944.

Le bureau, qui se trouve au point de fuite de toutes ces histoires, avec ses multiples tiroirs, exerce son pouvoir sur tous ceux qui entrent en sa possession ou qui le lèguent à quelqu’un d’autre. Au fur et à mesure que les narrateurs de La Grande Maison nous dévoilent leur destin, le bureau finit par représenter tout ce qui leur a été enlevé, tout ce qui les lie à ce qu’ils ont perdu.

La Grande Maison est hanté par la question de ce que nous laissons en héritage à nos enfants. Comment reprennent-ils le témoin de nos rêves et de nos deuils? Quelle réponse pouvons-nous opposer à la disparition, à la destruction, à la transformation de tout?
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Boréal
Language
French
Pages
333

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2011 April, Boréal
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Edition Notes

Publ. en collab. avec: Éditions de l'Olivier.

Published in
Montréal, Canada
Copyright Date
2011
Translation Of
Great House
Translated From
English

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3611 R38 G7314 2011

Contributors

Translator
Paule Guivarch

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
333 p. ;
Number of pages
333

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26433848M
Internet Archive
lagrandemaisonro0000krau
ISBN 10
2764620977
ISBN 13
9782764620977
OCLC/WorldCat
701243974
Goodreads
11600865

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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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January 16, 2019 Edited by Lisa Moved edition to primary work.
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