Nicole Krauss Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Deftly weaving from one end of life to another - from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss's stories illuminate the moments in the lives of women in which the forces of sex, power and violence collide. With sons and lovers, seducers and friends, husbands lost and regained, or husbands who were never husbands at all, how many men does can a woman's lifetime hold? What does it mean to be a man and a woman together; or a man and a woman, once together and now apart? Beautiful, taut and dark, spinning across the world, from Switzerland, Japan and New York to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and South America, To Be a Man delves with originality and timeliness into questions of masculinity and violence, regret and regeneration, control and desire; and shines a fierce, unwavering light onto men and women, and into the uncharted gulfs that lie between them.

JULES EPSTEIN IS UNDERGOING A TRANSFORMATION It began in the wake of his parents' death, when he divorced his wife of over thirty-five years, retired from his legal firm, and started rapidly shedding the possessions he'd spent a lifetime accumulating. With the last of his wealth and a nebulous plan, he departs New York for the Tel Aviv Hilton. Meanwhile, a novelist leaves her husband and children behind in Brooklyn and checks in to the same hotel, hoping that the view of the pool she used to swim in on childhood holidays will 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 drwan in to a mystery that will change her life in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humour, this is a novel of metamorphosis and self-realisation - of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.

For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean 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 in Budapest in 1944.Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given 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.Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to creat a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.(front flap)

La publicación de la segunda novela de Nicole Krauss confirmó su extraordinario talento, recibiendo elogios de críticos y escritores, incluido el Premio Nobel J. M. Coetzee. Con una mezcla de humor y ternura, la autora aborda el insondable tema del amor, la pérdida y la memoria, rindiendo homenaje a la literatura y su capacidad para transformar vidas. Leo Gursky, un cerrajero polaco jubilado en Nueva York, teme morir sin que nadie lo haya visto. Su vida da un giro cuando recibe un manuscrito perdido, acompañado de una carta enigmática, que lo lleva a revivir recuerdos de su juventud. Mientras tanto, Alma Singer, una quinceañera que enfrenta los dilemas de su edad, decide que es hora de que su madre supere la tristeza tras la muerte de su padre. Su búsqueda de un nuevo marido para su madre se entrelaza con la novela "La historia del amor", escrita en yidis y adquirida por su padre en Buenos Aires. Surgen interrogantes sobre el pasado de su padre, el autor del libro y un misterioso hombre que ha encargado su traducción al inglés. La narrativa se intensifica a medida que los caminos de Leo y Alma se cruzan, revelando una trama ingeniosa que culmina en un final inolvidable. Con un tono intimista, Krauss logra contar una profunda historia de amor, llena de pasión y melancolía, que resonará con todo tipo de lectores.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

The story follows Samson Greene, a New York English professor who finds himself disoriented in the desert after undergoing surgery for a brain tumor that erased his memories since age twelve. Struggling to reconnect with his life, including his wife Anna and friends, he receives a call from a charismatic doctor in California about a groundbreaking brain research experiment. This opportunity sparks a journey filled with adventure and self-discovery, exploring themes of loneliness and the essence of human connection, all conveyed with Nicole Krauss's signature poignant humor.