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[...]

Inspired by her four grandparents (from four different countries), Krauss tells the story of a man who, 60 years ago in the Polish village where he was born, fell in love and wrote a book. And though he doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. Unabridged. 8 C[...]

Leo Gursky er kun lige akkurat levende. Hver aften slår han på radiatoren i sin lejlighed i New York for at give livstegn til sin overbo. Den fjortenårige Alma vil gerne finde en mand til sin mor. Moren er oversætter, og en ukendt mand tilbyder hende opgaven at oversætte en gammel bog[...]

Det stora huset består av fyra tätt sammanlänkade historier, där ett gammalt skrivbord med alla sina lådor står i centrum som en metafor för det kollektiva judiska minnet. Utgångspunkten är en kärlekshistoria mellan författarinnan Nadja och den chilenske poeten Daniel. Vi får följa skri[...]

New York tidigt sjuttiotal. När den chilenske poeten Daniel återvänder till sitt hemland för att kämpa mot Pinochet får den unga författarinnan Nadia ta över hans stora skrivbord som han säger tillhört Lorca. Men Daniel mördas av den brutala regimen och kommer aldrig tillbaka. För Nadia [...]

"Det var en gång en pojke som älskade en flicka och hennes skratt var en fråga som han ville ägna hela livet åt att besvara. Deras kärlek var hemlig och de berättade inte för någon om den. Han lovade henne att han aldrig så länge han levde skulle älska någon annan."

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"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[...]