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Description
In the Polish village where he was born, Leo Gursky fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in her honour. These days he is just about surving life in America. Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author.
Awards
Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006 and Orange Prize 2006.
Author description
Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. Her first novel Man Walks into a Room, to be published by Penguin in 2006, was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.
Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9780141019970
- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : January 2006
- : 198mm X 129mm X 17mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 272
- : 813.6
- : Paperback
- : Nicole Krauss
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