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...
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...
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 Nicole Krauss's Great House is a haunting story that explores loss and memory.
A reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a Chilean poet disappeared at the hands of Pinochet. In London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, a dealer reassembles...