Recommended for those who appreciate literary mysteries with emotional depth. The History of Love provides a unique perspective of love and its impact across generations and geographical locations, woven together beautifully by Krauss. This book will leave you thinking about the characters and their stories long after you finish reading it.

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• 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)

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...An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

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