Books by Nicole Krauss

During the winter of 1972, a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he departs New York, leaving her his desk. It is the only time they ever meet. Two years later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police and never seen again. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair among her papers that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer has spent a lifetime reassembling his father's study, plundered by the Nazis from Budapest in 1944; now only one item remains to be found.Connecting these lives is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away. And as the narrators of Great House make their confessions, this desk 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.

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger, 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 book my father gave her called The History of Love. . . 'Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author.Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives. . . 'Wonderfully affecting...brilliant, touching and remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph'A tender tribute to human valiance. Who could be unmoved by a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday'Devastating...one of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away' Spectator Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three novels: Great House (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011), The History of Love and Man Walks into a Room (shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award), all of which are available in Penguin paperback.

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 med titlen Kærlighedens historie.

Julian Epstein er forsvundet fra jordens overflade. De eneste spor, han efterlader sig, er en nedslidt lejlighed samt en kuffert med monogram, fundet i ørkenen. Epsteins forsvinden markerer afslutningen på den forvandling, hans familie gradvist har været vidne til: I kølvandet på sine forældres død, skilsmissen fra sin kone gennem mere end 35 år og sin pensionering fra et advokatfirma, får den velhavende Epstein nemlig en uimodståelig trang til at skille sig af med alle sine værdier og ejendele. Med resterne af sin formue og en gådefuld plan i bagagen forlader han Manhattan for at indlogere sig på the Tel Aviv Hilton. Samtidig forlader en forfatter sin mand og børn i Brooklyn og tjekker ind på selvsamme hotel i Tel Aviv. Tynget af en skriveblokering og et ægteskab på katastrofekurs, håber hun, at opholdet på hotellet kan åbne op for en ny dimension af virkeligheden. Mørke, dybe skove er en ambitiøs og tryllebindende roman, fuld af liv og humor, om forvandling og selvrealisering, om at se ud over alt det, der er synligt, ud mod det uendelige.

Samson Greene has been missing for eight days when he is discovered wandering through the Nevada desert, 'ragged as a crow' and with no idea who he is. He is rushed to hospital where doctors save his life, but all his memories after the age of twelve have been permanently lost.

"En af USA's mest betydningsfulde forfattere og en international litterær sensation." - New York TimesI New York tilbringer en kvindelig forfatter en nat med en ung chilensk digter. Da han rejser, lover hun at tage vare på hans skrivebord. Digteren forsvinder under Pinochets regime, og det massive skrivebord bliver stående hos hende. Næsten tre årtier senere dukker en ung kvinde op. Hun hævder, hun er digterens datter, og forlanger at få bordet tilbage. Pludselig er forfatterens liv forandret, hun mister sin inspiration og rejser til Israel.På den anden side af Atlanten, i en af Londons fornemme forstæder, finder en mand en hårlok blandt sin døende kones papirer. Hårlokken afslører hendes dybeste og mørkeste hemmeligheder.I Jerusalem er en antikvitetshandler i gang med møjsommeligt at rekonstruere sin fars arbejdsværelse, der blev plyndret af nazisterne.Nicole Krauss'  roman Det store hus er en ambitiøs og gribende historie om kærlighed og tab, eksil og overlevelse på tværs af kontinenter og årtier.