Inprint: Nicole Krauss and Francisco Goldman

Comments (0) By Olivia Flores Alvarez Thursday, Sep 15 2011

Critics have called the characters in Nicole Krauss’s latest novel, Great House, fractured and broken, but Krauss disagrees. “We’re seeing these characters at a time when their lives appear to be broken,” she tells us. “But that doesn’t mean that as characters they are at all.” Great House chronicles the history of various people who come in contact with a large, overbearing writing desk. There’s a young woman, a novelist who agrees to hold the desk for a poet about to return to his homeland, Chile. Among the thousands that are disappeared under the Pinochet regime, he never returns. Years later, a young woman appears at the novelist’s door claiming to be the poet’s daughter, asking for the desk. By now, it’s become much more than a writing table to the novelist, and she doesn’t want to part with it. But how can she deny the young woman who is looking for something, anything, that will help her hold on to her long-missing father?

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Wortham Theater Center

501 Texas Ave.
Houston, TX 77002

Category: Performing Arts Venues

Region: Downtown/ Midtown

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Krauss will be appearing at the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, along with Francisco Goldman, who will be reading from his new book Say Her Name. 7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center, 501 Texas. For information, call 713-521-2026 or visit www.inprinthouston.org. Free to $5.
Mon., Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., 2011