The History Of Love Av Nicole Krauss

<p>Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, <i>The History of Love</i> by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. <br><br><b>''When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called <i>The History of Love</i>. . . ''</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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. . . <br><br>''Wonderfully affecting...brilliant, touching and remarkably poised'' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br>''A tender tribute to human valiance. Who could be unmoved by a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?'' <i>Independent on Sunday</i><br><br>''Devastating...one of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one''s breath away'' <i>Spectator </i><br><br>Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three novels: <i>Great House</i> (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011), <i>The History of Love</i> and <i>Man Walks into a Room</i> (shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award), all of which are available in Penguin paperback.</p>