Book Review: “Great House”

Here’s the book review I did for the Associated Press of  “Great House” by Nicole Krauss:

In “Great House,” the new novel by Nicole Krauss, author of the acclaimed “The History of Love,” a disparate cast of characters is linked by a single desk. The massive multidrawered construction serves as a workspace for two writers, each encased behind a wall of solitude, and as the linchpin for the fate of a Hungarian-born antiques dealer who hunts down furniture plundered by the Nazis.

The story of the desk is told by four narrators: Nadia, a solitary New York writer who first acquires the piece from a doomed Chilean poet; Aaron, an Israeli man confronting his own mortality and agonizing over the estranged relationship with his son; Arthur, the husband of Lotte Berg, another writer whose experience fleeing the Nazis truncated her ability to express emotion; and Isabel, a failed graduate student in love with an antiques dealer’s son.

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