The History of Love: A Novel [Paperback]

Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know hes still alive. But it wasnt 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 (Vertiginously exciting&Beyond the vigorous whiplash that keepsAt least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious.Krauss writes like an angel.One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes ones breath away.Its the sort of book that makes life bearable after all.A significant novel, genuinely one of the years best. Emotionally wrenching yet intellectually rigorous, idea-driven but with indelible characters and true suspense.Big, bold, twist-your-heart sad, kick-your-heels joyfulNicole Krauss's brilliant novel is as deep and multifaceted as love itself.It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith.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.ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE.