That was in 1972, and Nadia has pined ever since for Varsky, whom she loved passionately but who was never her lover. All her writing is done at a huge desk-with many drawers, one locked-which Nadia inherited by accident from Daniel Varsky, a Chilean poet who was tortured to death by the Pinochet regime before he could return to New York to claim it. A writer of romans-à-clef based in New York, her best work is behind her, and she has never managed to achieve lasting or satisfying relationships with the people in her life. The first of the novel’s five narrators is Nadia. Krauss’s third novel, rapturously received by critics, was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Fiction. Told by five separate first-person narrators, American author Nicole Krauss’s novel Great House (2010) weaves many characters’ histories into the story of an antique desk, which as it changes hands becomes a symbol of loss and dislocation.
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