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Oct 22, 2010 four narrators weave their own stories investigating the effects of loss, loneliness and deep uncertainty in nicole krauss novel, great house, which is a finalist for the national book award. Two years later, he is arrested by pinochets secret police and never seen again. And it is so not despite or even because of nicole krauss s nonliterary blessings, but because, simply, she can. Summary for twentyfive years, a reclusive american novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of pinochets secret police. And it is so not despite or even because of nicole krausss nonliterary blessings, but because, simply, she can write.
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