EAN: 9781408871850

TO BE A MAN - NICOLE KRAUSS KARTONIERT (TB)

Deftly weaving from one end of life to another - from ageing parents to newborn babies  from a
young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth
from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold  Nicole
Krauss's stories illuminate the moments in the lives of women in which the forces of sex  power
and violence collide.   With sons and lovers  seducers and friends  husbands lost and regained
or husbands who were never husbands at all  how many men does can a woman's lifetime hold? What
does it mean to be a man and a woman together  or a man and a woman  once together and now
apart?   Beautiful  taut and dark  spinning across the world  from Switzerland  Japan and New
York to Tel Aviv  Los Angeles and South America  To Be a Man delves with originality and
timeliness into questions of masculinity and violence  regret and regeneration  control and
desire  and shines a fierce  unwavering light onto men and women  and into the uncharted gulfs
that lie between them.

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