Great House A Novel [Paperback]

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 Pinochets secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poets daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writers 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 fathers study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.[Krauss] writes of her characters despair with striking lucidity&an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning.Starred Review. Krauss masterful rendition of character is breathtaking, compelling.... This tour de force of fiction writing will deeply satisfy fans of the authors first two books and bring her legions more.While her prior, much-vaunted novel, The History of Love, was certainly fresh and winning, Great House strikes me as a richer, more seasoned exploration of the themes and images that bedevil Krauss& Krauss sentences are so beautiful, rendered in such simple, clear language, I had to stop to reread many.Krauss can do just about anything she wants with the English language.Krauss herself is a fiction pioneer, toying with fresh ways of rendering experience and emotion, giving us readers the thrill of seeing the novel stretched into amorphous new shapes.The most heartbreaking part of Great House, the third novel by Nicole Krauss, is having to finish it&As the mysteries of this beautifully written novel come spooling out, youll marvel at how profoundly one brilliantly crafted metaphor involving a mute wooden artifact can remind us what it means to be alive.A novel brimming with insights into the human psyche&often haunting and ultimately rewarding.Krauss organic scenes soar, she is stunning.Surely if there is one book each author il£S