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Great House

A Novel
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
304 Seiten
Englisch
Nortonerschienen am10.06.2011
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. 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 Great House 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. Great House 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? Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss. "This is a novel about the long journey of a magnificent desk as it travels through the twentieth century from one owner to the next. It is also a novel about love, exile, the defilements of war, and the restorative power of language." -National Book Award citationmehr
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KlappentextFor 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. 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 Great House 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. Great House 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? Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss. "This is a novel about the long journey of a magnificent desk as it travels through the twentieth century from one owner to the next. It is also a novel about love, exile, the defilements of war, and the restorative power of language." -National Book Award citation
ZusammenfassungÜber Jahrzehnte jagt der jüdische Kunsthändler Georg Weisz den Habseligkeiten nach, die seiner Familie vor dem Abtransport ins KZ geraubt wurden. Besessen von dem Wunsch, das grauenvolle Geschehen seiner Kindheit ungeschehen zu machen, baut er in seinem Haus in Jerusalem das Zimmer seines Vaters genau so nach, wie er es aus dem Vorkriegs-Budapest in Erinnerung behalten hat. Der Schreibtisch jedoch fehlt. Es ist ein klotziges, Unglück verheißendes Möbelstück, und seine verschiedenen Besitzer die New Yorker Schriftstellerin Nadia, der chilenische Student Daniel, die deutsche Holocaustüberlebende Lotte geraten in einen Strudel von Ereignissen, die sie mit Liebe, Verlust und Tod konfrontieren.
Nicole Krauss nimmt uns mit auf eine vertrackte Zeitreise in verschüttete Welten. Sie alle leuchten mit der Schärfe ihrer Erkenntnis, der Schönheit ihrer Bilder und der Prägnanz ihrer Kunst, die auslotet, was Sprache sagen kann und wo sie letztlich schweigen muss.
"Das große Haus" ist ein mitreißender Roman über die Gräuel und Schönheiten des 20. Jahrhunderts.A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-393-34064-8
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2011
Erscheinungsdatum10.06.2011
Seiten304 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht252 g
Artikel-Nr.10361161
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Kritik
[Krauss] writes of her characters' despair with striking lucidity...an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning. --Sam Sacksmehr

Autor

Nicole Krauss wurde 1974 in New York, USA, geboren. Sie studierte Englische Literatur in Stanford und Oxford. "Die Geschichte der Liebe" ist ihr zweiter Roman nach "Man Walks Into a Room" und einigen Lyrikveröffentlichungen. Sie ist mit Jonathan Safran Foer verheiratet und lebt in New York.