Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, "The History of Love" by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a [...]

A trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and "greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century" (James Wood, "The New Republic") While Saul Bellow is known best for his longer fiction in award-winning novels such as "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Herzog," "Something to Remember Me[...]

Found wandering in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Samson Greene, a thirty-six-year-old Columbia University English professor, is discovered to have a brain tumor, but when surgery removes the tumor, leaving him with no recollection of his life after the age of twelve, he finds himself struggling t[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011, Nicole Krauss' "Great House" is a haunting story that explores loss and memory. In New York a woman spends the night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her at his desk. Later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police...In north L[...]

"Rachel Shihor is the opposite of a misty-eyed writer," writes Mona Reiserer in the Quarterly Conversation. "Her writing penetrates to the truth of the aches and anxieties all people share, though they must generally suffer them alone." "There is no question that she is a great writer," Nicole Kraus[...]

Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Ingo Schulze, George Konrad, Victor Pelevin, and Enrique Vil[...]

Ien nedslitt leilighet i New York prøver Leo Gursky å overleve litt til. Hver kveld banker han på radiatoren for at naboen over skal høre at han fortsatt lever.Men livet hans har ikke alltid vært slik. For seksti år siden bodde han hjemme i Polen, der han forelsket seg og skrev en bok. Kjæres[...]

Samson Greene, 38, hittas en dag irrande långt ute i Mojaveöknen i Nevada. Han vet inte hur han hamnat där och han vet inte vem han är. När läkare undersöker honom finner man en hjärntumör som troligtvis är orsaken till minnesförlusten. När Samson vaknar upp efter opreationen[...]

Författaren Nadia och den chilenske poeten Daniel träffas i New York 1972. När han åker tillbaka till Chile ber han att få lämna kvar sitt gamla skrivbord i hennes lägenhet tillsvidare. Men han kommer aldrig tillbaka. Han är en av de många som försvinner spårlöst i Pinochets[...]

»...Nicole Krauss lyckas med det närmast osannolika konststycket att överträffa sitt eget tidigare mästerverk.«

Per Planhammar, GP

»Nicole Krauss är så isande välformulerad att man som läsare upprepade gånger tvingas stanna upp och läsa enskilda meningar högt f�[...]