Résultats pour "Nicole Krauss" dans Fiction

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.

La publicación de La historia del amor, segunda novela de Nicole Krauss, supuso la confirmación del extraordinario talento de esta joven escritora norteamericana, suscitando el elogio entusiasta de críticos y escritores, entre ellos el Premio Nobel de Literatura, J.M. Coetzee.

Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for 68 years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than 30 years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents.

A large wooden desk with many drawers is at the mysterious center of Krauss' deeply engrossing new novel of interwoven lives. The author of the best-selling The History of Love discusses her 2010 National Book Award nominated book, with Deborah Treisman (fiction editor at The New Yorker). An excerpt will be performed by Lois Smith. Performance playlist: Reading by Lois Smith, conversation between Nicole Krauss and Deborah Treisman, and a discussion with the audience.

Leo Gursky er kun lige akkurat levende. Hver aften slår han på radiatoren i sin lejlighed i New York for at give livstegn til sin overbo. Den fjortenårige Alma vil gerne finde en mand til sin mor. Moren er oversætter, og en ukendt mand tilbyder hende opgaven at oversætte en gammel bog med titlen "Kærlighedens historie".

Julian Epstein er forsvundet fra jordens overflade. De eneste spor, han efterlader sig, er en nedslidt lejlighed samt en kuffert med monogram, fundet i ørkenen. Epsteins forsvinden markerer afslutningen på den forvandling, hans familie gradvist har været vidne til: I kølvandet på sine forældres død, skilsmissen fra sin kone gennem mere end 35 år og sin pensionering fra et advokatfirma, får den velhavende Epstein nemlig en uimodståelig trang til at skille sig af med alle sine værdier og ejendele.

Join best-selling author Nicole Krauss to discuss her upcoming new novel, Forest Dark, an intellectual, humorous, provocative book exploring life and God through the eyes of two Americans lost in Tel Aviv. Krauss will be interviewed by National Humanities Medalist, novelist, and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein ( Plato at the Googleplex). With a performance from the novel by Emily Skeggs ( Fun Home).