by Nicole Krauss · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789041416612
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«Het grote huis» is the novel by Nicole Krauss, published by Anthos in hardback (342 pages, in Dutch).
An American writer has spent twenty-five years working at the desk inherited from a young Chilean poet; a woman claims it, saying she is the poet's daughter. An Englishman discovers a secret that shakes his marriage, and in Jerusalem an antiques dealer reconstructs his father's study in Budapest, looted during the Second World War.
Original work: «Great House» (2010), translated into Dutch by Tjadine Stheeman. Finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize; winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in polyphonic narratives about memory, loss, and human connection.
Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.
