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Great house

Nicole Krauss presents a series of stories, all of which are connected by a desk. An American novelist has been using a desk inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared under shady circumstances. But when the poet's daughter claims possession of the desk, the writer is crushed. In London, a man discovers that his dying wife has been hiding a terrible secret. In 1944 Jerusalem, an antiques dealer attempts to restore his father's study after it was plundered by the Nazis in Budapest.

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  • "Nicole Krauss presents a series of stories, all of which are connected by a desk. An American novelist has been using a desk inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared under shady circumstances. But when the poet's daughter claims possession of the desk, the writer is crushed. In London, a man discovers that his dying wife has been hiding a terrible secret. In 1944 Jerusalem, an antiques dealer attempts to restore his father's study after it was plundered by the Nazis in Budapest."@en
  • "Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss."
  • "Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss."@en
  • "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. And a Jerusalem antiques dealer uses the desk in his family's study, which was devastated by the Nazis in 1944."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en

http://schema.org/name

  • "Great house"
  • "Great house"@en
  • "Great house a novel"@en