Great House (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Lotte Berg: Wife of Arthur Bender.
• Yoav Weisz: Leah's brother.
• Leah Weisz: Yoav's sister.
• Mrs. Kleindorf: Avner Segal's seventh grade teacher.
• Daniel Varsky: The owner of the desk in the 1970's who visits Lotte Berg and gives the desk to Nadia to look after.
• Adam: Rafi's cousin.
• Claude Leclercq: The master of Cloudenberg in Antwerp, Belgium whom Yoav and Isabel travel to see about antiques for Weisz. Gigi's uncle.
• Paul Alpers: A mutual friend of Daniel Varsky and Nadia in New York.
• Mrs. Fiske: The woman who adopted "Teddy" in Liverpool.
• Gigi: Leclercq's young grandnephew.
• Richard Gottlieb: Arthur Bender's lawyer.
• Dovik: Uri's younger troubled brother who becomes a judge in London.
• Uri: Dovik's older brother. The good one. Husband to Ronit.
• John Fiske: Adoptive father and Mrs. Fiske's dead husband.
• Bogna: The Weisz's Romanian cleaner.
• Dina: Rafi's daughter and Adam's cousin. Adam is in love with her.
• Rafi: Waiter in Jerusalem cafe.
• Dr. Lichtman: Nadia's therapist.
• Nadia: Narrator of the 'All Rise' sections, who journeys from New York to Jerausalem.
• R: Nadia's lover.
• S: Nadia's ex-husband of ten years.
• Mrs. Becker: Nadia's old neighbour.
• Ronit: Uri's wife.
• Gilad: Uri and Ronit's son.
• Avner Segal: Add a description of this character.
• Shlomo
• Dafna
• Mr. Shatzner: Psychologist at Dovik's school.
• Arthur Bender: Narrator of the 'Swimming Holes' sections and the widower of Lotte Berg.
• Isabel: Narrator of the 'Lies Told By Children' section; Yoav's lover.
• George Weisz: Leah and Yoav's father. Antiques dealer.
• Monsieur Boulier: Headmaster of the International School in Geneva.
• Madame Boulier
• Patrick Clifton: Gay political science student at Oxford.
• Kathelijn: Leclercq's maid at Cloudenberg.
• A. L. Plummer: Isabel's English lit professor at Oxford.
• Aaron: Eve's husband. Father to Uri and Dovik. Narrator of the 'True Kindness' sections.
• Eve: Aaron's wife. Mother to Uri and Dovik.
• Joseph Kern

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Jerusalem
• London
• New York
• Belsize Park
• Oxford
• England
• Chile
• Israel
• Paris
• Frankfurt
• Budapest
• Cloudenberg
• Highgate

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• afikoman: The Afikomen is a piece of matzah that is traditionally hidden during the Passover seder.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nicole Krauss (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Amazon Best of the Month (October 2010, #2)
• National Book Award (Finalist, 2010: Fiction)
• Orange Prize for Fiction (Finalist, 2011, Shortlist)
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2011)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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