Details Appertaining To Books The History of Love
| Title | : | The History of Love |
| Author | : | Nicole Krauss |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | May 17th 2006 by Norton (first published May 17th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Contemporary |
Nicole Krauss
Paperback | Pages: 255 pages Rating: 3.92 | 118284 Users | 10735 Reviews
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An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here 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. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, 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...Itemize Books To The History of Love
| Original Title: | The History of Love |
| ISBN: | 0393328627 (ISBN13: 9780393328622) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Alma Singer, Leo Gursky, Zvi Litvinoff |
| Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) Slonim(Poland) |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2006), Edward Lewis Wallant Award (2005), Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2005), William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2008), Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (2006) Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2006) |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 118284 Users | 10735 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books The History of Love
"All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen."Leopold Gursky, Holocaust survivor, is a lonely old man who dreams of his long-lost love Alma Mereminski and survives each day with the desire to just be noticed by someone. He has one single soul he can call a friend in this world, Bruno, his old faithful. Alma Singer is a fourteen year old girl who lost her father and whose heart aches for the mother that can barely get out of bed and make it to the next day - "My mother is lonely evenIf the opportunity to read this book in one sitting would have been available to me, I probably would have taken it. Unfortunately my job tends to cramp my reading style more often than not (admittedly not the worst problem in the world to have), but sometimes I cant help but think about how much reading I could get done if I didnt have to spend the best hours of my day doing work. Oh well. I suppose that is what retirement will be for. I really loved this book. The characters spoke to me and
One of the last books I read in 2017 was Virginia Woolf's A Room of One Own. In this series of essays, Woolf maintains that if a woman has a room of her own in which to write, then she is more than capable of producing the same if not greater works than men. While pondering my 2018 classics bingo and what book to use as a free square, my thoughts turned to Nicole Krauss. I finally discovered Krauss last year, having read both Great House and Forest Dark. The prose in both novels was superb,
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. I found this quote from a listicle (please don't judge me!) of 50 of the most beautiful sentences in literature. This one particular sentence left me with a heaping serving of "the feels" and so without a second thought, I chucked the book I was reading at that time and started reading "The History of Love." A few chapters later, I realized that this was not the
How about the history of me bawling my face off.
He was a great writer. He fell in love. It was his life. The Simplest Questions Are the Hardest to Answer 1. What is love?2. Who am I?3. Is there a word for everything?4. What sort of book is this?5. What is a palaeontologist?5. What is a Palaeontologist?If he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museums steps, let a few weeks pass, went back and scoured Fifth Avenue and Central Park for as many
"If you don't know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is there for love?"What a reading experience! I went into this book knowing absolutely nothing about its premise. All I knew was that it is highly regarded by many of my Goodreads friends. What you should know is that right after I finished reading it, I spent the rest of the day rereading and underlining passages and clues I might have overlooked. Did you find yourself
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