Nicole Krauss Książki

Seks, władza, przemoc, pasja, samotność, odkrywanie siebie, starzenie się: Nicole Krauss mistrzowsko ukazuje absurd, a czasem głęboką prawdę kryjąca się w codziennych dramatach, które pozwalają nam w pełni doświadczać życia. Opisuje rzeczywistość przepełnioną apatią, nostalgią i zmęczeniem, ujawnia nierozerwalny splot ludzkich sił i słabości. Szuka odpowiedzi na pytania o tożsamość - również tę religijną, o istotę relacji między dziećmi a rodzicami, o paradoks upragnionej, choć często gorzkiej, samotności. Rozpina literacki most między Nowym Jorkiem a Tel Awiwem i bawi się z czytelnikiem - raz leżymy na słonecznej izraelskiej plaży, by za chwilę znaleźć się w dystopijnej Ameryce. Niestworzone historie mieszają się tu z prozą życia, a kolejne opowiadania subtelnie ze sobą rezonują. Z językową elegancją i literackim wyczuciem Krauss wprowadza nas w świat rozwiedzionych kobiet, samotnych mężczyzn, oddanych przyjaciół, wielopokoleniowych rodzin, banitów z wyboru i z przeznaczenia. A nad wszystkimi bohaterami unosi się pełne lęku pytanie: czy przestanę być człowiekiem, którym byłem od zawsze?

Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago in the Polish village where he was born Leo fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in honour of his love. These days he assumes that the book, and his dreams, are irretrievably lost, until one day they return to him in the form of a brown envelope. Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author. Soon these and other worlds collide in The History of Love, a captivating audio exploring the power of love, of loneliness and of survival.

In New York a woman spends a night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her his desk. Later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police ... In north london, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret ... In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis. One item remains missing ... Spanning continets and decades, weaving an intricate web of its characters' lives, Great House tells a soaring story of love, loss and survival against the odds.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

The story follows Samson Greene, a New York English professor who finds himself disoriented in the desert after undergoing surgery for a brain tumor that erased his memories since age twelve. Struggling to reconnect with his life, including his wife Anna and friends, he receives a call from a charismatic doctor in California about a groundbreaking brain research experiment. This opportunity sparks a journey filled with adventure and self-discovery, exploring themes of loneliness and the essence of human connection, all conveyed with Nicole Krauss's signature poignant humor.

Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from a thirty-year marriage, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he begins shedding the possessions he spent a lifetime accumulating - a watch here, an Old Master there - and becomes elusive, distant. Resolving to do something to commemorate his parents, he travels to Tel Aviv and checks into the Hilton. Meanwhile, a novelist leaves her husband and children behind in Brooklyn and arrives at the same hotel, hoping that the view of the pool she used to dive into on childhood holidays will unlock her writer's block. But when a retired professor of literature recruits her for a project involving Kafka, she is drawn into a mystery that will take her on a metaphysical journey and change her in ways she could never have imagined