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Nicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories. Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our finest and freshest literary voices.

From the internationally best-selling author of The History of Love comes this stunning novel. Great House follows the multiple owners of one writing desk and how the desk shapes their lives. A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet’s police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet’s supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife....

Nicole Krauss’ Great House was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Man Walks Into a Room follows Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are grafted from one brain to another.

In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all. 

Tras su sensacional debut en 2005 con La historia del amor - novela traducida a más de treinta idiomas y de la cual se han vendido más de un millón y medio de ejemplares en todo el mundo - su prestigio no ha hecho más que aumentar entre el público y la crítica.

Join best-selling author Nicole Krauss to discuss her upcoming new novel, Forest Dark, an intellectual, humorous, provocative book exploring life and God through the eyes of two Americans lost in Tel Aviv. Krauss will be interviewed by National Humanities Medalist, novelist, and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein ( Plato at the Googleplex). With a performance from the novel by Emily Skeggs ( Fun Home).

A large wooden desk with many drawers is at the mysterious center of Krauss' deeply engrossing new novel of interwoven lives. The author of the best-selling The History of Love discusses her 2010 National Book Award nominated book, with Deborah Treisman (fiction editor at The New Yorker). An excerpt will be performed by Lois Smith. Performance playlist: Reading by Lois Smith, conversation between Nicole Krauss and Deborah Treisman, and a discussion with the audience.

Julian Epstein er forsvundet fra jordens overflade. De eneste spor, han efterlader sig, er en nedslidt lejlighed samt en kuffert med monogram, fundet i ørkenen. Epsteins forsvinden markerer afslutningen på den forvandling, hans familie gradvist har været vidne til: I kølvandet på sine forældres død, skilsmissen fra sin kone gennem mere end 35 år og sin pensionering fra et advokatfirma, får den velhavende Epstein nemlig en uimodståelig trang til at skille sig af med alle sine værdier og ejendele.

Leo Gursky er kun lige akkurat levende. Hver aften slår han på radiatoren i sin lejlighed i New York for at give livstegn til sin overbo. Den fjortenårige Alma vil gerne finde en mand til sin mor. Moren er oversætter, og en ukendt mand tilbyder hende opgaven at oversætte en gammel bog med titlen "Kærlighedens historie".