Man Walks into a Room

Krauss celebrates the anything-but-simple art of human connection SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLESamson 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.Youll savour the last page - and be hungry for future work from this talented author THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD