Ranked by New Yorker editors as one of the 2010 "20 Under 40" writers worth watching, Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestseller The History of Love, and an earlier novel, Man Walks Into a Room. A no. 1 Booksense pick for 2005, The History of Love was an NBC Today Show Book Club Selection and won the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. In her new novel Great House, a desk links the lives of those whose hands it passes through, coming to stand for all that they have lost to the world.