And she creates in Alma a character so in need of being understood, and yet so beyond understanding that the tension is magnified. That tension between what we know and what we want to know keeps us riveted.
Krauss creates a character in Leo Gursky who we need to understand and who is so very hard to understand. The History of Love works so incredibly well as a piece of literary artistry because it taps into some of the greatest tension we as readers can experience, and it makes us fall in love. There is a person in the world who understands me so intimately and so terribly well, and it is this person who gave me this book. I got this book from one of my closest friends a friend I met late in life but without whom I could not exist as the person I am today. The History of Love changed the way I look at books. It takes one's breath away' Spectator Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three novels: Great House (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011), The History of Love and Man Walks into a Room (shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award), all of which are available in Penguin paperback.There are books that are wonderful and then there are books that change the way you look at books. Who could be unmoved by a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday 'Devastating.one of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. 'Wonderfully affecting.brilliant, touching and remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph 'A tender tribute to human valiance. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book.
Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out. ' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, The History of Love by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Description for The History of Love Paperback.
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