{"product_id":"the-history-of-love","title":"The History of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eONE 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Krauss, Nicole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986030391581,"sku":"9780393328622","price":3.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/3326\/4925\/products\/1715291772.jpg?v=1684547764","url":"https:\/\/shopabilities.ca\/products\/the-history-of-love","provider":"Shop-Abilities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}