“The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.”

American author

Nicole Krauss is an American novelist known for fiction that has reached a wide international readership. She is best known for her four novels, Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017). Her work has been translated into 35 languages. Krauss has also had fiction published in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Esquire. She was included in Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and her stories have appeared in several editions of The Best American Short Stories, including 2003, 2008, 2019 and 2021.