Great House alternates between the voices of four different narrators, woven together in surprising ways at the end of the novel. Great House was recently nominated for the National Book Award. Her novel The History of Love has been translated into 35 languages. It's an anxiety-producing approach, but Krauss' writing process serves her well. "I really just begin writing, without any sense of where the writing will take me.” "That includes the themes, that includes the plot, that even includes the characters," she tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. Their doubts reflect the nature of the novelist's writing process - Krauss says she starts writing without any idea where her story's going. Nicole Krauss' characters are consumed by uncertainty about the future - and with good reason.
She lives with her husband, the writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in Brooklyn. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's and Esquire.
Nicole Krauss is the author of The History of Love and Man Walks Into A Room.
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