A reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a Chilean poet disappeared at the hands of Pinochet. In London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that...

Deftly weaving from one end of life to another - from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at...

Once again, Nicole Krauss has fearlessly explored uncharted territory in this novel brimming with life and not lacking in humor, that encloses a profound reflection, both charming and painfully beautiful, about metamorphosis and...

Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old...