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Man Walks into a Room
  • Published: 29 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141021157
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99

Man Walks into a Room



From the author of the bestselling and greatly acclaimed The History of Love, comes an utterly gripping story of a man who has forgotten his past and is desperate to know his future.

Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumour saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve are permanently lost.

Here is the story of a strikingly intelligent, sensitive man returned to a world in which everything is strange and new. An emigrant in his own life, set free from everything and everyone who once defined him. Samson believes he has nothing left to lose. So when a charismatic scientist asks him to participate in a bold experiment, Samson agrees. What he gains is nothing short of the beautifully painful revelation of what it is to be a human being.

  • Published: 29 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141021157
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, also to be published by Penguin, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire and Best American Short Stories. The History of Love has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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