Our Best Love Story [Paperback]

Our Best Love Storytraces the end of a romance as an unnamed narrator wanders the streets of his city, attempting to endure his new solitude, taking refuge in remembered places and imagined companions. Told in a series of fragments, the novel wrestles powerfully but playfully with its own obligation to craft a satisfying story of love's formation, its decay, and its eventual end. Ultimately, Levi's novel asks readers to consider whether books, stories, reading, writing, the artificial life and companionship found in literature, can ever truly form an adequate response to the inescapable fact of human solitude.Levi writes with a reflective melancholy that evokes Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaak Babel, but hes also been compared to James Joyce for his ex-pat-like ruminations on his homeland.Historical Novel SocietyThe lyrical style of Levis prose is heavily influenced by classic Yiddish literature, as well as leaders of the modernist movement: people like Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce.The Times of Isreal