The History of Love

The History of Love

By Nicole Krauss

Pages

255

Rating

3.92

Year

2005

RomanceContemporaryYoung AdultFictionHistorical FictionComing-of-Age

Description

Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing 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 called 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...

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