{"product_id":"great-house-9780393079982","title":"Great House","description":"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 ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eGreat House\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreat House\u003c\/em\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKrauss, Nicole:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eNicole Krauss\u003c\/strong\u003e has been hailed by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e as one of America's most important novelists. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eMan Walks Into a Room\u003c\/em\u003e, a finalist for the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year; \u003cem\u003eThe History of Love\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller and winner of the Saroyan Prize for International Literature; \u003cem\u003eGreat House\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award; \u003cem\u003eForest Dark\u003c\/em\u003e; and most recently, \u003cem\u003eTo Be a Man: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2007 she was selected as one of \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e's 'Twenty Under Forty' list. Her fiction has been published in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323991494930,"sku":"9780393079982","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d99d78c8-8653-4dec-a39b-e117ed46cfa4.jpg?v=1727663710","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/great-house-9780393079982","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}