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Nicole Krauss
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…
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[A] novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals, an older lawyer and a young novelist, whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert.
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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…
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A novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals, an older lawyer and a young novelist, whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert.
WINNER OF THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, ESQUIRE, O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE, TIME MAGAZINE, LITHUB AND BUSTLE
‘Superb’ New York Times…
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…
Roberto Bola?o
"Extraordinary . . . [Bola?o's] greatest work." --James Wood, The New York Times
The book that catapulted Roberto Bola?o into international literary stardom, By Night in Chile is the final…
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Samson Greene has been missing for eight days when he is discovered wandering through the Nevada desert, ‘ragged as a crow’ and with no idea who he is. He is…
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Tells a haunting story that explores loss and memory. Spanning continents and decades, and weaving an intricate web of its characters’ lives, this book is about love, loss and survival…
The National Book Award finalist explores contemporary gender realities in a collection of short fiction that traces the experiences of diverse characters at various stages of life.
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Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman and the arising tensions that have existed…
Krauss pens a powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
An electrifying short story collection from ‘one of America’s most important novelists’ (New York Times); the twice Orange Prize-shortlisted author of the bestselling The History of Love
A TIME BOOK…
Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But life wasn’t always like this: 60 years ago, in the…
Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in FictionWinner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in FictionWinner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf AwardShortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in…
Hardcover edition published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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Krauss Nicole
In this shimmering debut novel of memory, identity, and love, an English professor’s brain tumor eradicates his memories past the age of 12 as he mourns a life well-lived and…
The New York Times -bestselling author of The History of Love delivers a breathtakingly original work about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals whose transcendental search…
Aleksandar Hemon,Nicole Krauss
This series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, with each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names. Hemon introduces a new cross-section of European…
Saul Bellow
Two novellas and a short story by the 1976 Nobel Prize-winner, in which three people - two men and a woman, tell stories of the past, of their hopes and…
