About the Author. Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as “one of America’s most important novelists.”. She is the author of the international bestseller Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Man Walks Into a Room. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages/5(). · Great House is a smart, serious, sharply written novel of great care and yearning. And it is so not despite or even because of Nicole Krauss's Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Told by five separate first-person narrators, American author Nicole Krauss’s novel Great House () weaves many characters’ histories into the story of an antique desk, which as it changes hands becomes a symbol of loss and dislocation. Krauss’s third novel, rapturously received by critics, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction.
Great House By NICOLE KRAUSS. Reviewed by Sarah L. Courteau / Octo Share. Nicole Krauss's third novel is a montage of four haunting human portraits, each soengrossing that the effect is of a spotlight switching from one character toanother. The object that connects her disparate cast—a magisterial desk thatpasses in and out of. Told by five separate first-person narrators, American author Nicole Krauss's novel Great House () weaves many characters' histories into the story of an antique desk, which as it changes hands becomes a symbol of loss and bltadwin.ru's third novel, rapturously received by critics, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Nicole Krauss' fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short bltadwin.ru is best known for her novel, The History of Love (), which won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was short-listed for the Orange, Medicis, and Femina bltadwin.ru House (W.W. Norton, ), her third novel, was a finalist for a National Book Award.
Great House is a smart, serious, sharply written novel of great care and yearning. And it is so not despite or even because of Nicole Krauss's non-literary blessings, but because, simply, she can. About the Author. Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America’s most. Great House. by. Nicole Krauss. · Rating details · 17, ratings · 2, reviews. 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.
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