Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago in the Polish village where he was born Leo fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in honour of his love. These days he assumes that the book, and his dreams, are irretrievably lost, until one day they return to him in the form of a brown envelope. Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author. Soon these and other worlds collide in The History of Love, a captivating story of the power of love, of loneliness and of survival.
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Review:
'A bewitching novel, it brims with all manner of romantic possibility and luminous connection' -- Harpers and Queen
'A new star in the literary firmament... one of the most touching stories you are ever likely to read' -- In Style
'Characters fly off the page and into your consciousness' -- Good Housekeeping
'Charming, tender and wholly original' -- J.M.Coetzee
'Her distinctive voice is both plangent and wry, and her imagination encompasses many worlds' -- Publishers Weekly
'This is a wonderful novel, erupting with life . . . building to a perfect, heartbreaking end' -- Daily Mail
Poignant and evocative...the writing is beautiful... the twists and turns keep you riveted until the last page' -- Easy Living
‘Vertiginously exciting . . . vibrantly imagined . . . Ms. Krauss's work is illuminated by the warmth and delicacy of her prose’ -- New York Times
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.
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