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Five years after her internationally-acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling novel, The History of Love, Nicole Krauss is back with another brilliant work, Great House (W.W. Norton). Already nominated as a finalist for this year's National Book Award, this book is, on its surface, the story of a desk which has changed hands over the decades. "This stunning work showcases Krauss's consistent talent. The novel consists of four stories divided among eight chapters, all touching on themes of loss and recovery, and anchored to a massive writing desk that resurfaces among numerous households, much to the bewilderment and existential tension of those in its orbit, among them 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 ... Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow." - Publishers Weekly.
