Forest Dark

Former }Granta{ Best Young American Novelist and }New Yorker{ 'Twenty Under Forty' selection Nicole Krauss returns with what Philip Roth calls 'a brilliant novel', in which a formerly dynamic lawyer finalises the dwindling of his personality by vanishing, and a blocked writer sets out from the Tel Aviv Hilton on a transformative metaphysical journeyJules Epstein has vanished from the world. He leaves no trace but a rundown flat patrolled by a solitary cockroach, and a monogrammed briefcase abandoned in the desert.To Epstein's mystified family, the disappearance of a man whose drive and avidity have been a force to be reckoned with for sixty-eight years marks the conclusion of a gradual fading. This transformation began in the wake of Epstein's parents' deaths, and continued with his divorce after more than thirty-five years of marriage, his retirement from a New York legal firm, and the rapid shedding of his possessions. With the last of his wealth and a nebulous plan, he departs for the Tel Aviv Hilton.Meanwhile, a novelist leaves her husband and children behind in Brooklyn and checks into the same hotel, hoping to unlock her writer's block. But when a man claiming to be a retired professor of literature 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.

Nicole Krauss (Auteur) - Verschenen op 07/08/2018 bij Bloomsbury Libri