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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 is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't alContinue
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I really loved this book. There are two story tellers: one is an old man named Leopold, a survivor of the Holocaust who immigrates to NY, who writes a book about his beloved, a woman named Alma. The other story teller is a young girl, whose life is inextricably linked to Leo and Alma. What a charmin ... (continue)
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As a mystery it is interesting. However, for the better half of the book I felt it was moving too slowly . . . and yet. . .
The little brother's role seemed superfluous. His role in connecting sub-plots to each other could have been accomplished in a simpler manner. There were too many diverge ... (continue)―
Missmath144 said on Jan 12, 2009 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback
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polacek said on Jul 27, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback
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- English Books
- Hardcover 252 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0393060349
- ISBN-13: 9780393060348
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Pub date: May 02, 2005
- Dimensions: 24 cm x 17 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Reading The History of Love
I wasn't completely sure how I would feel about Nicole Krauss's The History of Love at first. When we started with a chapter where an elderly man talks about his flatulence, I had concerns. However, there's a symmetry between Krauss's book and her husband Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and In ... (continue)
I wasn't completely sure how I would feel about Nicole Krauss's The History of Love at first. When we started with a chapter where an elderly man talks about his flatulence, I had concerns. However, there's a symmetry between Krauss's book and her husband Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I was similarly worried when the first page of that book featured speculation about a talking anus. The good news is that in both cases, that kind of metaphor and description goes away quickly and leads into something much more inspired.
The History of Love swaps narratives between three (and then at the end, four) characters. We meet Leo Gursky, the elderly man who lives alone and has a penchant for writing and making people pay attention to him. Next, we are acquainted with teenager Alma, who is obsessed with learning more about a book her mother is translating - titled The History of Love. Finally, we see the actual evolution of the book itself as we learn about the author on the title page. In the end, all come together in a most rewarding way.
This is a book about writing, to be sure. It's also a story about the endurance of love. By the time I got to the end, I was in love, too.
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