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.
Monday, October 25 at 7:30 pm at our Colfax Avenue Store:
Nicole Krauss, author of the international bestseller The History of Love, will read from and sign her critically acclaimed new novel Great House ($24.95 W.W. Norton), a powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. “This stunning work showcases Krauss’s consistent talent. …Much like in Krauss’s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but 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, starred review
Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
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