The History of Love: A Novel
By Nicole Krauss
- Release Date: 2006-05-17
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE.
A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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).
Reviews
added to my list of awful books
1By morgwanaI’m about 72% done with this book and I’m only finishing it out of spite and because I paid for it. I’ve never read a book with a worst writing style. Why is all the dialogue clumped into one paragraph? Feels like I’m reading something written by a fifth grader who doesn’t understand the rules of writing dialogue. Overall, it’s just a bad book. The plot is all jumbled and hard to understand, the characters are badly written. I absolutely HATE this book, which says a lot because there are only two other books that I hate so fiercely. But hey! If you’re an aspiring writer just remember... if this can get published so can your book!A must read.
5By JanieispieI'm in love with this book.Loved it!
5By brunaaliceThis book completely hooked my attention. Lovely, lovely. Definitely a book that I would reread many times and always recommend. My emotions were extremely touched by the main characters.Beautiful
5By Nmalvarez86Beautiful and heart breaking.
