Follow-Up

With The History of Love finished, I wanted to start looking for another read. Since I would rate that book highly, maybe even a 9, I wanted to see what other books Nicole Krauss has available. In addition to many short stories, she has also written Man Walks into a Room and Great House. After reading the descriptions of both, I found one to be particularly interesting. Great House seems like another great read by her and it even has some of the same elements of writing and religion that were present in The History of Love. Here is a quick summary from Nicole Krauss's website.

Great House

For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.
Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared.
Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?
Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.

In addition, I thought I would share with you all an article from New York Magazine that I came across about Nicole Krauss. It gives more insight into her as an author and a person, which is something I enjoy doing about after reading a great work. I like to envision what the author might have been relating to or feeling while they were writing, as well as put clues together about any deeper insights that would lead to why they wrote what they did. So, if you would like, take a read! If you do, and if you don't already know, you may be surprised to find out that her husband is also a best-selling writer. That being said, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, may just be next on my list and push Great House until after..