Bücher von Nicole Krauss

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger, The History of Love by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love. . . 'Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author.Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives. . . 'Wonderfully affecting...brilliant, touching and remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph'A tender tribute to human valiance. Who could be unmoved by a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday'Devastating...one of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away' Spectator Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three novels: Great House (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011), The History of Love and Man Walks into a Room (shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award), all of which are available in Penguin paperback.

Nicole Krauss, die Autorin des Welterfolges «Die Geschichte der Liebe», kehrt mit einem großartigen Werk zurück: Jules Epstein, ein alter, reicher, vom Leben enttäuschter New Yorker Anwalt, reist nach Israel. Nicole, eine junge Schriftstellerin mit Eheproblemen, checkt ebenfalls in Tel Aviv ein. Epstein hat einen Rabbi an den Fersen, der ihn für einen Abkommen König Davids hält, Nicole hingegen einen dubiosen Professor mit einem geheimnisvollen Schreibauftrag. Zwei Menschen auf der Suche nach dem Unbekannten in sich selbst finden in der Wüste Negev überraschende Wege, über sich, ihre Träume und die Welt hinaus ins Unendliche zu schauen.

Eine Odyssee rund um die Welt - weise und voll zärtlichem Humor25 Jahre lang arbeitet die New Yorker Schriftstellerin Nadia an einem Schreibtisch, den sie von einem in den Folterkellern Pinochets gestorbenen Chilenen geschenkt bekam. Eines Tages kommt ein junges Mädchen, das behauptet, die Tochter des Chilenen zu sein, und holt ihn ab. Von da an klappt nichts mehr in Nadias Leben. Sie macht sich auf, das Möbel zu suchen, und trifft im fernen Israel auf einen Mann, der das Arbeitszimmer seines von den Nazis umgebrachten Onkels rekonstruiert ...«Untröstlich sieht man sich irgendwann gezwungen, die letzten Seiten umzublättern. Und staunt darüber, wie ein hölzernes Möbel zur Metapher des Lebens werden kann.» Elle

In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Loveone of Americas most important novelists and an international literary sensation (New York Times)explores what it means to be in a couple, and to be a man and a woman in that perplexing relationship and beyond.In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all.The way these stories mirror one other and resonate is beautiful, with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel. Echoes ring through stages of life: aging parents and new-born babies; young womens coming of age and the newfound, somewhat bewildering sexual power that accompanies it; generational gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or a future waiting to unfold. To Be a Man illuminates with a fierce, unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krausss stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength.