New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her powerful third novel "about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. For 25 years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochets secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poets daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writers life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his fathers study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. Connecting these stories is the desk." SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award, Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award, shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize, and more. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-0393079982.