The History of Love – A Novel - Hardcover

Krauss, Nicole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393060349 ISBN 13: 9780393060348

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Synopsis

Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book...Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).

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Review:

Vertiginously exciting.

At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious.

Krauss writers like an angel.

Moving and virtuosic.

It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith.--Ali Smith

One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away.

It's the sort of book that makes life bearable after all.

A significant novel, genuinely one of the year's best. Emotionally wrenching yet intellectually rigorous, idea-driven but with indelible characters and true suspense.

From the Publisher:

Described by JM Coetzee as ‘charming, tender and wholly original’, an extract from The History of Love appeared in the New Yorker earlier this year. Nicole Krauss is one of the most exciting writers to have emerged from America in recent years and The History of Love is truly unforgettable: wonderfully funny, vivid and heartbreaking in equal measure.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393060349
• ISBN 13: 9780393060348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252