The History of Love
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.8
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Nicole Krauss
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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Author
Nicole Krauss
Pages
252
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Published Date
2005
ISBN
0393060349 9780393060348
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I think this book will stick with me for years to come. Overall, it was a very wholesome read with the range of characters that Krauss expertly and beautifully intertwined. Very few novels have endings as beautiful as this one, and I will cherish it. “And yet” are two words that are often repeated by an elderly character that give hope, but also a pang of sadness. It is a phrase used as a tool of reflection, and simultaneously, as a tool of looking at the present and beyond. I enjoyed the book, the plot, the characters, and above all the ending. 4.5/5"
Olivia Denning
"An odd work of literary fiction, but it was amazing to see how it all fit together."
Ricki Marking-Camuto
"One of my favorite books of all time."
M J
Melinda Johnson
"Kind of disappointed with the ending..."
Liz Thurman
