- Immigrants, Fiction, Books and reading, Loss (Psychology)
Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing that she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author.
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Grave, contemplative, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Nicole Krauss
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Gallimard, W. W. Norton, Norton
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780393328622
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First sentence
“When they write my obituary.”
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