Nicole Krauss

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...

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.

Ein vom Leben enttäuschter reicher New Yorker Anwalt und eine junge Schriftstellerin mit Eheproblemen gehen in der Wüste Israels auf die Suche nach sich selbst und finden überraschende Wege, über sich und ihre Träume hinaus ins Unendliche zu schauen. Mit sprühender Intelligenz und erzählerischer Raffinesse webt Nicole Krauss (Jg.1974) in "Waldes Dunkel" ein traumhaft metaphorisches Gespinst. "Ein fantastischer Roman" (Philip Roth). Mod.:...

Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence...