Great House

by Nicole Krauss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393079988
• ISBN13: 9780393079982
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"