Great House
Autor Nicole Kraussen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2011
Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award
Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fiction
A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780393340648
ISBN-10: 0393340643
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-10: 0393340643
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
Descriere
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in FictionWinner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in FictionWinner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf AwardShortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fiction A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
Notă biografică
Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. Her first novel Man Walks into a Room, to be published by Penguin in 2006, was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.
Recenzii
Moving, haunting, overwhelmingly poignant
The History of Love was very good indeed. Great House ... is even better. A heartbreaking meditation on loss and memory and how they construct out lives
Full of mystery and suspense, building towards one of the great climaxes in contemporary fiction. It is hard to imagine a better book of fiction being published this year ... one of the finest writers of our time
Extraordinary, unforgettable, mesmeric
Exquisitely measured ... coheres in a stunning conclusion
Bewitching, mysterious and deeply moving. One of 2011's must-reads
The History of Love was very good indeed. Great House ... is even better. A heartbreaking meditation on loss and memory and how they construct out lives
Full of mystery and suspense, building towards one of the great climaxes in contemporary fiction. It is hard to imagine a better book of fiction being published this year ... one of the finest writers of our time
Extraordinary, unforgettable, mesmeric
Exquisitely measured ... coheres in a stunning conclusion
Bewitching, mysterious and deeply moving. One of 2011's must-reads