The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0393328627 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0393328627 Global Overview for this book
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I picked this up from the friends of the Wilmette Library book sharing shelves at the community recreation center when I worked in the building a few years ago. I recently pulled this from my TBR pile to read and release.
This was very different from what I expected from the back cover synopsis. I enjoyed it but was not expecting what I read. I loved how these characters that seemed unrelated were slowly drawn together as we the readers along with Alma discover more about the mysterious book The History of Love.
Amazon synopsis:
ONE 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).
Amazon synopsis:
ONE 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).
Journal Entry 3 by nimrodiel at Chicago Botanical Gardens in Glencoe, Illinois USA on Sunday, November 18, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (11/17/2018 UTC) at Chicago Botanical Gardens in Glencoe, Illinois USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
left on a bench outside the Lendhart Library in the Regenstein Center before the Book Talk by Marta McDowell
I found this on a bench at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Much appreciated. I'm traveling from NJ this week and had finished my book (a Willa Cather). I have just started it. Very promising.