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The History of Love

Nicole Krauss

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The History of Love won the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love. . . ' 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 love lost that 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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Publisher
Penguin UK
Year
2012
ISBN-13
9780241964200
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Love and lossPower of writing and storytellingSurvival and memory across generations

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