ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE
A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son, and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know heâs still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book⦠Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill, and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of âextraordinary depth and beauty.â
âVertiginously exciting.â âNew York Times
âAt least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious.â âWashington Post
âKrauss writers like an angel.â âGuardian
âOne of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes oneâs breath away.â âSpectator
âIt restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faithâ âAli Smith
âItâs the sort of book that makes life bearable after all.â âMiami Herald
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as âone of Americaâs most important novelists.â She is the author of the international bestseller Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Man Walks Into a Room. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- Literature & Fiction
- Jewish
- Literature & Fiction
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Author : Krauss, Nicole
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2006-05-17
Number Of Pages : 272
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0393328627
ISBN-13 : 9780393328622
Item weight : 1.25 lb
Dimensions : 0.8 in x 5.5 in x 8.2 in
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