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I had so many questions upon finishing this book, I googled interviews with Nicole Krauss for further insight. She is deeply intelligent and thoughtful, both in writing and speaking, but I didn't learn the answers to my burning questions: Why did Leah hide the desk from her father? Did Dov end up dy...
I love the conceit of using a desk as a symbol and to tie different characters together, and I thought this novel was fascinating and highly accomplished. Krauss's writing is beautiful and though the story is often sad the book is wonderfully put-together and a marvel to read.
Moments of soaring, heart-shattering prose. Krauss has the ability with one sentence - the gaps between the words, really (what you're expecting, more than what you are reading) - to imply and evoke the depth of emotion from the tragedies of life. It doesn't hurt that her characters have undergone...
This book is a set of separate stories about four different families whose lives touch because of a large desk. It seems far-fetched, but with the imagination of Nicole Krauss, it meshes. Although I had some difficulty getting into the book, I soon became enthralled with the stories and had diffic...
When you finally read Nicole Krauss again, you realise how good writing can and should be. Her first book was the last straw that drew me into publishing. This might just have drawn me back in a few years later.
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