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The History of Love

The History of Love

by Krauss, Nicole
$3.50 - $3.50
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$3.50 - $3.50
$3.50

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). . Review. . . "Vertiginously exciting...Beyond the vigorous whiplash that keeps The History of Love moving (and keeps its reader off balance until a stunning finale), this novel is tightly packed with ingenious asides...Even at their most oddball, these flourishes reflect the deep, surprising wisdom that gives this novel its ultimate heft.". - Janet Maslin, New York Times. . . "At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious.". - Washington Post. . . "Krauss writes like an angel.". - Guardian. . . "One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away.". - Spectator. . . "It's the sort of book that makes life bearable after all.". - Miami Herald. . . "A significant novel, genuinely one of the year's best. Emotionally wrenching yet intellectually rigorous, idea-driven but with indelible characters and true suspense.". - New York. . . "Big, bold, twist-your-heart sad, kick-your-heels joyful¢•Nicole Krauss's brilliant novel is as deep and multifaceted as love itself.". - Marie Claire. . . "It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith.". - Ali Smith. . . "Nicole Krauss's gripping new voice doesn't work its way into the pantheon of American voices: it literally walks straight up to them and asks them to move over.". - Andre Aciman.