Forest Dark - Nicole Krauss

Jules Epstein a man whose drive avidity and personality have for sixty-eight years been a force to be reckoned with is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths his divorce from a thirty-year marriage and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner he begins shedding the possessions he spent a lifetime accumulating - a watch here an Old Master there - and becomes elusive distant. Resolving to do something to commemorate his parents he travels to Tel Aviv and checks into the Hilton. Meanwhile a novelist leaves her husband and children behind in Brooklyn and arrives at the same hotel hoping that the view of the pool she used to dive into on childhood holidays will unlock her writer's block. But when 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.

TITLE: Forest Dark

AUTHOR: Nicole Krauss

SKU: 9781408871799

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

DATE PUBLISHED: 24/08/2017

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 304

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 153 mm x 234 mm

WEIGHT: 472 gr