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2012 Longlist

Great House

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

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 Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Nicole
Krauss

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Chosen by our readers. With honed wit and masterly dialogue, the author rages against that most endearing of Dutch characteristics – the Protestant work ethic – when it is manipulated and abused by hypocritical wheelers and dealers. Great House challenges us to understand loss as both personal and historical. The novel connects – in complex and surprising ways – the stories of characters shattered by the past.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton

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