Archive for October 6, 2010
GREAT HOUSE by Nicole Krauss
An imposing wooden desk with nineteen drawers floats through this book like a buoy, and sometimes with shackles, loosely uniting four disparate but interconnected narrative threads. The desk is largely a monument to Jewish survival, loss, and recovery, and mirrors the dissolution, pain, and dire hope of each character. Additionally, it is a covetous object, given a poignant and existential significance by the chorus of voices that are bound to it by their memories.
October 6, 2010
Tags: Literary Posted in: Contemporary, Literary, Real Event Fiction, Theme driven, Unique Narrative 
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