Samson Greene has been missing or eight days when he is discovered
wandering through the Nevada desert, 'ragged as a crow' and with on idea
who he is. He is rushed to hospital where doctors save his life, but all
his memories after the age of twelve have been permanently lost. Now, as he
looks around the beautiful apartment he apparently shares with his wife and
which is filled with all the souvenirs of a life well lived, Samson feels
nothing more than a vague admiration. In her first novel Nicole Krauss
tells the story of a man suddenly liberated from the life he has made,
disconnected from the people who have defined him. Withdrawing from a wife
he has no memory of loving, Samson plunges weightless into the future. But
when he agrees to participate in a revolutionary experiment, what he gains
is nothing short of the revelation of what it is to be a human being.
'Krauss celebrates the anything-but-simple art of human connection' San
Francisco Chronicle 'You'll savour the last page - and be hungry for future
work from this talented author' The Washington Post Book World