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Great House
  • Published: 4 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780670919345
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $45.00

Great House

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4 July 2012
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27 Sept 2010
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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction 2011 - an astonishing new novel from the bestselling author of The History of Love

In New York a woman spends a night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her his desk. Later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police ... In north london, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret ... In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis. One item remains missing ...

Spanning continets and decades, weaving an intricate web of its characters' lives, Great House tells a soaring story of love, loss and survival against the odds.
  • Published: 4 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780670919345
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestsellers Forest Dark, Great House (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize) and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was shortlisted for the Orange, Médicis and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and were collected in To Be A Man, which received the Wingate Prize. She was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Her books have been translated into 38 languages.
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Man Walks into a Room
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Praise for Great House

Moving, haunting, overwhelmingly poignant

Sunday Times

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

Guardian

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

Jewish Chronicle

Extraordinary, unforgettable, mesmeric

Daily Mail

Exquisitely measured ... coheres in a stunning conclusion

Independent

Bewitching, mysterious and deeply moving. One of 2011's must-reads

Harper's Bazaar