Man Walks into a Room

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.

About Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestsellers Forest Dark, Great House (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize) and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was shortlisted for the Orange, Médicis and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and were collected in To Be A Man, which received the Wingate Prize. She was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Her books have been translated into 38 languages.
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Details
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780141021157
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 181g
  • Price: £15.99