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''Great House'' is the third novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss, published on October 12, 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company. Early versions of the first chapter were published in ''Harper's'' ("From the Desk of Daniel Varsky", 2007),〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.enotes.com/from-the-desk-of-daniel-varsky )〕() ''Best American Short Stories 2008'', and ''The New Yorker'' ("The Young Painters", June 2010). ''Great House'' was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Fiction. ==Book description== For 25 years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. Linking these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. The book's title, ''Great House'', is the name by which the yeshiva in Yavne, founded by the first-century rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, became known after his death. Its source is this passage from the Bible, in the Second Book of Kings, chapter 25, verse 9: "He burned the house of God, the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great House (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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