![]() 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. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.Ĭonnecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. ![]() 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. Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fictionįor 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. ![]() Winner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in Fiction Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Fiction ![]()
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