Description
Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's 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 "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
About the Author
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America's most important novelists." She is the author of Man Walks Into a Room, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; The History of Love, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Saroyan Prize for International Literature; Great House, a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award; Forest Dark; and most recently, To Be a Man: Stories. In 2007 she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen for the New Yorker's 'Twenty Under Forty' list. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews
"Vertiginously exciting." -- New York Times
"At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious." -- Washington Post
"Krauss writers like an angel." -- Guardian
"One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away." -- Spectator
"It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith." -- Ali Smith
"It's the sort of book that makes life bearable after all." -- Miami Herald
"A significant novel, genuinely one of the year's best. Emotionally wrenching yet intellectually rigorous, idea-driven but with indelible characters and true suspense." -- New York
"Moving and virtuosic." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Awards
Short-listed for Orange Prize 2006 and British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006.
Book Information
ISBN 9780393060348
Author Nicole Krauss
Format Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 571g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 165mm * 28mm
About the Author
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America's most important novelists." She is the author of Man Walks Into a Room, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; The History of Love, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Saroyan Prize for International Literature; Great House, a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award; Forest Dark; and most recently, To Be a Man: Stories. In 2007 she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen for the New Yorker's 'Twenty Under Forty' list. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews
"Vertiginously exciting." -- New York Times
"At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious." -- Washington Post
"Krauss writers like an angel." -- Guardian
"One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away." -- Spectator
"It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith." -- Ali Smith
"It's the sort of book that makes life bearable after all." -- Miami Herald
"A significant novel, genuinely one of the year's best. Emotionally wrenching yet intellectually rigorous, idea-driven but with indelible characters and true suspense." -- New York
"Moving and virtuosic." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Awards
Short-listed for Orange Prize 2006 and British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006.
Book Information
ISBN 9780393060348
Author Nicole Krauss
Format Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 571g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 165mm * 28mm
