In 'Great House', a tale of profound introspection and striking depth, Nicole Krauss weaves together the narratives of four disparate lives, all connected by the legacy of a desk with many drawers. This desk bears witness to their struggles and becomes a symbol of loss and remembrance as it passes through their worlds. A reclusive American novelist finds her quiet existence upended by the daughter of a vanished Chilean poet, while in London, a man uncovers a dark truth within his dying wife's papers. Across the globe, a Jerusalem antiques dealer attempts to reconstruct his father's life, claimed by the brutality of the Holocaust. Each story is steeped in the longing to reclaim what is gone, with the desk becoming an anchor in a sea of change, bearing the weight of memory, inheritance, and the indelible imprint of the past.