Nicole Krauss

La imaginación, la inteligencia y la sutil elegancia que hicieron de la segunda novela de Nicole Krauss, La historia del amor, un éxito internacional de lectores y crítica, se aprecian de forma inconfundible en esta obra de notable lucidez que supuso el debut literario de Krauss. Despues de vagar perdido mas de una semana en el desierto de Nevada, Samson Greene, profesor de Literatura en la Universidad de Columbia, es encontrado en un aparente estado de amnesia. Ha perdido todos sus recuerdos desde la edad de doce años, y ahora, convertido en un adulto inteligente y sensible con los recuerdos de un niño, procura reanudar su antigua vida en Nueva York con el apoyo de Anna, su mujer. Sin embargo, en una ciudad donde todo le resulta nuevo y extraño, Samson se siente incapaz de conciliar el placido mundo de su infancia con la desconcertante realidad que lo reclama, hasta el punto de que empieza a dudar si en verdad quiere recobrar el saber y el afecto perdidos. Cuando un carismatico cientifico le propone someterse a un experimento de alto riesgo, Samson acepta y regresa al desierto, iniciando un intenso y revelador periplo que lo llevara a conocer los limites de la soledad y el conocimiento intimo.Nicole Krauss explora con total desenvoltura el papel que los recuerdos desempeñan en la identidad de las personas, y hasta que punto la desmemoria, en el cambiante y acelerado mundo contemporaneo, es un estado misteriosamente temido y deseado al mismo tiempo. El resultado es esta novela hermosa y brillante, profunda y honesta, que no deja a nadie indiferente.

For twenty-five years, a solitary American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young 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 from Budapest in 1944. Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give 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.

Jules Epstein has vanished from the world. He leaves no trace but a rundown flat patrolled by a solitary cockroach, and a monogrammed briefcase abandoned in the desert. To Epstein''s mystified family, the disappearance of a man whose drive and avidity have been a force to be reckoned with for sixty-eight years marks the conclusion of a gradual fading. This transformation began in the wake of Epstein''s parents'' deaths, and continued with his divorce after more than thirty-five years of marriage, his retirement from a New York legal firm, and the rapid shedding of his possessions. With the last of his wealth and a nebulous plan, he departs for the Tel Aviv Hilton.Meanwhile, a novelist leaves her husband and children behind in Brooklyn and checks into the same hotel, hoping to unlock her writer''s block. But when a man claiming to be a retired professor of literature recruits her for a project involving Kafka, she is drawn into a mystery that will take her on a metaphysical journey and change her in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humour, this is a profound, mesmerising, achingly beautiful novel of metamorphosis and self-realisation.

Jules Epstein a disparu. Après avoir liquidé tous ses biens, ce riche new-yorkais est retrouvé à Tel-Aviv, avant quon perde à nouveau sa trace dans le désert. Lhomme étrange quil a rencontré, et qui

Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumour saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve are permanently lost. Here is the story of a strikingly intelligent, sensitive man returned to a world in which everything is strange and new. An emigrant in his own life, set free from everything and everyone who once defined him. Samson believes he has nothing left to lose. So when a charismatic scientist asks him to participate in a bold experiment, Samson agrees. What he gains is nothing short of the beautifully painful revelation of what it is to be a human being.

A New York, la jeune Alma ne sait comment surmonter la mort de son père. Elle croit trouver la solution dans un livre que sa mère traduit de l'espagnol, et dont l'héroïne porte le même prénom qu'elle. Non loin de là, un très vieil homme se remet à écrire, ressuscitant la Pologne de sa jeunesse, son amour perdu, le fils qui a grandi sans lui. Et au Chili, bien des années plus tôt, un exilé compose un roman. Trois solitaires qu'unit pourtant, à leur insu, le plus intime des liens : un livre unique, L'histoire de l'amour, dont ils vont devoir, chacun à sa manière, écrire la fin. Cet admirable roman, hanté par la Shoah, offre une méditation déchirante sur la mémoire et le deuil. Mais c'est avant tout un hymne à la vie, écrit dans une langue chatoyante et allègre, l'affirmation d'un amour plus fort que la perte, et une célébration, dans la lignée de Borges, des pouvoirs magiques de la littérature. Il impose d'emblée Nicole Krauss comme une romancière de tout premier plan. Prix du meilleur livre étranger 2006.

Jules Epstein a disparu. Après avoir liquidé tous ses biens, ce riche new-yorkais est retrouvé à Tel-Aviv, avant quon perde à nouveau sa trace dans le désert. Lhomme étrange quil a rencontré, et qui

À New York, la jeune Alma ne sait comment surmonter la mort de son père. Elle croit trouver la solution dans un livre que sa mère traduit de l''espagnol, et dont l''héroïne porte le même prénom qu''e

A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by "Esquire" magazine as "one of America''s best young writers." Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumor saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve are permanently lost. Here is the story of a keenly intelligent, sensitive man returned to a life in which everything is strange and new. An emigrant from his own life, set free from all that once defined him, Samson Greene believes he has nothing left to lose. So, when a charismatic scientist asks him to participate in a bold experiment, he agrees. Launched into a turbulent journey that takes him to the furthest extremes of solitude and intimacy, what he gains is nothing short of the revelation of what it means to be human.

Once upon a time a man who had become invisible arrived in America. An unlikely and unforgettable hero, Leo Gursky is a survivor -- of war, of love, and of loneliness. A retired locksmith, Leo does his best to get by. He measures the passage of days by the nightly arrival of the delivery boy from the Chinese restaurant and has arranged a code with his upstairs neighbor: Three taps on the radiator means, Are you alive?, two means YES, one NO.But it wasn't always so. Sixty years earlier, before he fled Poland for New York, Leo met a girl named Alma and fell in love. He wrote a book and named the character in it after his beloved. Years passed, lives changed, and unbeknownst to Leo, the book survived. And it provides Leo -- in the eighth decade of his life -- with a link to the son he's never known.

La publicación de La historia del amor supuso la confirmación del extraordinario talento de esta joven escritora norteamericana, suscitando el elogio entusiasta de críticos y escritores, entre ellos el Premio Nobel de Literatura J.M. Coetzee. Con una sabia mezcla de humor y ternura, Nicole Krauss ha escraito una hermosa aproximacion al insondable tema dle amor, la perdida y la memoria, ademas de un homenaje a la literatura y a la forma en que los libros pueden cambiar la vida de las personas.Con un tono intimista y envolvente, la autora h lograd lo mas dificil, contar una verdadera historia de amor en el sentido mas amplio y profundo de la palabra, una historia llena de pasion y melancolia que conmovera a todo tipo de lectores.

Leo Gursky, cerrajero polaco jubilado en Nueva York, cuya obsesión es «no morirme un día en que nadie me haya visto», recibe el manuscrito de un texto que creía perdido, acompañado de una enigmática

Ils vivent en Suisse, au Japon, à New York, Los Angeles ou Tel-Aviv. Ce sont des hommes et des femmes de tous âges qu’a priori rien ne rapproche. Et pourtant… Saisis à un moment décisif de leur parco

Ils vivent en Suisse, au Japon, à New York, Los Angeles ou Tel-Aviv. Ce sont des hommes et des femmes de tous âges qu’a priori rien ne rapproche. Et pourtant… Saisis à un moment décisif de leur parco

À New York, la jeune Alma ne sait comment surmonter la mort de son père. Elle croit trouver la solution dans un livre que sa mère traduit de lespagnol, et dont lhéroïne porte le même prénom quelle. N

National Bestseller A New York Times Notable BookNamed Best Book of the Year 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 Americas 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 individualsan older lawyer and a young novelistwhose 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, hes 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 rabbis beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own projecta film about the life of David being shot in the desertwith life-changing consequences.But Epstein isnt 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 writers block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of realityand her own perception of lifethat has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she cant turn down, shes 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-realizationof looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.