Nicole Krauss

National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Named Best Book of 2017 by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, Popsugar, and Globe and Mail "A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." —Philip Roth "One of America’s most important novelists" (New York Times), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original 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. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents’ deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he’s felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi’s beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project—a film about the life of David being shot in the desert—with life-changing consequences. But Epstein isn’t the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self, place, and history. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer’s block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality—and her own perception of life—that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can’t turn down, she’s drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.

A Novel

Forest Dark

In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love--"one of America's most important novelists and an international literary sensation" (New York Times)--explores what it means to be in a couple, and to be a man and a woman in that perplexing relationship and beyond. In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole 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 from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all. The way these stories mirror one other and resonate is beautiful, with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel. Echoes ring through stages of life: aging parents and new-born babies; young women's coming of age and the newfound, somewhat bewildering sexual power that accompanies it; generational gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or a future waiting to unfold. To Be a Man illuminates with a fierce, unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss's stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength.

Stories

To Be a Man

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, The History of Love by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love. . . '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 man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives. . . 'Wonderfully affecting...brilliant, touching and remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph'A tender tribute to human valiance. Who could be unmoved by a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday'Devastating...one of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away' Spectator Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three novels: Great House (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011), The History of Love and Man Walks into a Room (shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award), all of which are available in Penguin paperback.

The History of Love

An Arrangement of Light

Jonathan Safran Foer

Dave Eggers

Presents a collection of hypothetical and satirical terms and phrases that may be sometime in the future, when the Bush administration is not in power.

A Book to Benefit Progressive Causes in the 2004 Elections Featuring Over 170 of America's Best Writers and Artists

The Future Dictionary of America

Samson Greene has been missing or eight days when he is discovered wandering through the Nevada desert, 'ragged as a crow' and with on idea who he is. He is rushed to hospital where doctors save his life, but all his memories after the age of twelve have been permanently lost. Now, as he looks around the beautiful apartment he apparently shares with his wife and which is filled with all the souvenirs of a life well lived, Samson feels nothing more than a vague admiration. In her first novel Nicole Krauss tells the story of a man suddenly liberated from the life he has made, disconnected from the people who have defined him. Withdrawing from a wife he has no memory of loving, Samson plunges weightless into the future. But when he agrees to participate in a revolutionary experiment, what he gains is nothing short of the revelation of what it is to be a human being. 'Krauss celebrates the anything-but-simple art of human connection' San Francisco Chronicle 'You'll savour the last page - and be hungry for future work from this talented author' The Washington Post Book World

Man Walks Into a Room

Rob van der Veer

Op geheimzinnige wijze duikt er een boek op dat een oude joods-Poolse immigrant, die zijn zoon zoekt in Amerika, verbindt met een meisje dat wil weten wie haar naamgenote in het boek is.

De geschiedenis van de liefde

Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

تارىخ عشق

Ser un hombre 

La Historia Del Amor/ the History of Love

Een joodse schrijfster en een advocaat lopen vast in hun huwelijk en beleven in Israël een ingrijpende ommekeer in hun leven.

Muž vejde do pokoje

Veľký dom

Byť mužom

Antoaneta Ralian

Istoria iubirii

"Avalada por autores de la talla de Joseph Brodsky, Philip Roth, y Susan Sontag, Nicole Krauss es sin duda uno de los grandes nobres de la narrativa norteamericana actual. Tras su sensacional debut en 2005 con La historia del amor - novela traducida mâas de trienta idiomas y de la cual se han vendido mâas de un millâon y medio de ejemplares en todo el mundo - su prestigio no ha hecho mâas que aumentar entre el pâublico y la crâitica. En esta ocasiâon, Krauss nos invita a copartir las peripecias de dos personajes que, como en los câelebres versos del Infierno de Dante - de ahâi el tâitulo del libro - buscan con ahâinco escapar de la oscura selva en la que viven atrapados. Uno de ellos es Jules Epstein, un exitoso abogado neoyorquino que, despuâes de jubilarse, se ha esfumado sin dejar rastro. Para sus allegados, la desapariciâon de este hombre de carâacter arrollador, acostumbrado a ser siempre el mejor en todo, sâolo se explica por los golpes que la vida le ha deparado recientemente. En efecto, consterado por la muerte de sus padres, Epstein ha pueso fin a su matrimonio de treinta y seis aänos y, tocado por "la enfermedad de la caridad extrema," ha hipotecado su vivienda de la Quinta Avienda, se ha desprendido de sus pertenencias y se ha marchado a Tel Aviv, donde en la plante quince del hotel Hilston, ha intalado su centro de operaciones. En el mismo emblemâatico hotel se hospeda Nicole, una novelista que, en plena crisis personal, ha dejado a su marido y sus dos hijos en Brooklyn con la esperanza de ue las vistas de la piscina en la que solâia baänarse de pequeäna, durante las vacaciones familiares, obren el milagro de acabar con su bloqueo creativo. Pero cuando un enigmâatico profesor de literatura jubilado la contrata para rematar una presunta obre de teatro de Kafka, la mujer se ve envuelta en un misterioso asunto que la llevarâa a embarcarse en un viaje metafâisico que la transformarâa de un modo inimaginable."--Provided by publisher.

En Una Selva Oscura / Forest Dark

In the Polish village of his youth, Leo Gursky 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, takes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family.

La historia del amor

In New York a woman spends a night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her his desk. Later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police . . . In north london, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret . . . In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis. One item remains missing . . . . Spanning continets and decades, weaving an intricate web of its characters' lives, Great House tells a soaring story of love, loss and survival against the odds. 'The History of Love was very good indeed. Great House . . . is even better. A heartbreaking meditation on loss and memory and how they construct our lives.' Guardian 'Full of mystery and suspense, building towards one of the great climaxes in contemporary fiction. It is hard to imagine a better book of fiction being published this year . . . one of the finest writers of our time.' Jewish Chronicle 'Extraordinary, unforgettable, mesmeric.' Daily Mail 'Exquisitely measured . . . coheres in a stunning conclusion.' Independent 'Bewitching mysterious and deeply moving. One of 2011's must-reads' Harper's Bazaar

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