![]() ![]() But I'm willing to tolerate this confusion because of the isolated moments of psychological illumination that Krauss provides through her startling language. The plot here, though, is even murkier than it was in The History of Love: Through the overcast cloud cover we're shown glimpses of a hospital room in Jerusalem Freud's house in London a castle filled with dead people's furniture and a surrealistic shark suspended in a tank, wired with electrodes to absorb "the brunt of human emotions." I'm not sure what it all adds up to I'm not even sure that Great House has one cohesive theme. ![]() Like her celebrated best-seller, The History of Love, this new novel contemplates love, loss and the oppressive weight of memory on those left behind. Nicole Krauss' latest novel, Great House, is precisely the kind of work of art for which the phrase "oddly compelling" was invented. ![]()
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