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The History of Love

  • 272 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2005
  • 6 editions

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1 About this book

Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing that she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man named Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer.

He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives.

  • Immigrants
  • Loss (Psychology)
  • Romance
  • Psychological fiction
  • Books and reading
  • Authors
  • New york
  • Teenage girls

2 About Nicole Krauss

Born 1974

Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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