{"product_id":"great-house-9780393079982","title":"Great House","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of \u003cem\u003eGreat House\u003c\/em\u003e make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreat House\u003c\/em\u003e is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393079982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Indies Choice Book Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2010 pg. 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2010 pg. 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/05\/2010 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/09\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2010 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/08\/2010 pg. 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/18\/2010 pg. 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/17\/2010 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/24\/2010 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/14\/2010 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist Editors Choice\/Adult\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2011 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nicole Krauss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43112003272885,"sku":"9780393079982","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a07954b3-34dc-4715-a300-666665116f7a.jpg?v=1693926585","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/great-house-9780393079982","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}