Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in Best American Short Stories 2003, Best American Short Stories 2008 and Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.
Books by Nicole Krauss
3 books available
Forest Dark
by Nicole Krauss
3.1(5,867)
A retired lawyer in Tel Aviv gives away his possessions to find his ancestral roots, while a novelist with writer's block explores self and story in a hotel. Both go on journeys that blur identity and reality.
The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
3.9(121,146)
A forgotten Yiddish novel intertwines the lives of a lonely Polish émigré still yearning for his lost love and a tenacious teenage girl determined to cure her mother's solitude by finding its elusive author.
Great House
by Nicole Krauss
3.5(17,043)
A mysterious desk with many drawers connects people across continents and generations, each dealing with loss, inherited trauma, and the lasting power of memory during historical events.