To Be a Man

In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love—"one of America's most important novelists and an international literary sensation" (New York Times)—explores what it means to be in a couple, and to be a man or a woman in that perplexing relationship and beyond.In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all. The way these stories mirror one other and...