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From the bestselling, twice-Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a tale of transformation; ´a richly layered masterpiece´ (Financial Times)

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CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE OBSERVER, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND THE TIMES

´Lucid and exhilarating . A great gift´ New York Review of Books

´Tantalizes and compels ... A welcome reminder of how a novel can be defiantly and brilliantly novel´ Douglas Kennedy, New Statesman

Jules Epstein has vanished: first slowly, then all at once. He begins divesting himself of all of his worldly possessions. Now he´s fallen off the face of the earth, and all the search parties can find is his empty monogrammed briefcase, abandoned in the Judean foothills.

In her room at the Tel Aviv Hilton, an American novelist has also left home to undergo a transformation. But when a stranger recruits her for a project involving Kafka, she is drawn into a mystery that will take her on a metaphysical journey and change her in ways she could never have imagined.

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Lucid and exhilarating ... A great gift New York Times

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Krauss, Nicole
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as ´one of America´s most important novelists´. She is the author of the international bestsellers, Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France´s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. In 2007, she was selected as one of Granta´s Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen by the New Yorker for their ´Twenty Under Forty´ list. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper´s, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Her new novel, Forest Dark, will be published in autumn 2017.

nicolekrauss.com

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