{"product_id":"great-house-a-novel-1","title":"Great House: A Novel","description":"Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Fiction\nWinner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in Fiction\nWinner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award\nShortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fiction\n\nA powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. 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.\n\nConnecting 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.\n\nGreat 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?\n\nNicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0393079988\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 31UMYP0050YD_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Krauss, Nicole\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43314551652413,"sku":"31UMYP0050YD_ns","price":6.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0393079988-0.jpg?v=1782939371","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/great-house-a-novel-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}