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The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

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Why Read This?

A deeply moving meditation on how love and stories endure across time, leaving you with a bittersweet ache and renewed appreciation for connection.

Synopsis

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

At a Glance

3.92 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🥛clean
Endingspoiler
PairingN/A
Romance Pacingmedium burn

Mood

melancholicbittersweetnostalgicintrospectiveatmospheric

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

3.92 ★

Page Count

255 pages

Published

2005

Primary Genre

Literary Fiction

Pairing

N/A

POV

Multi-POV

Romance Pacing

Medium Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

George Guidall|Barbara Caruso|Julia Gibson|Andy Paris

Narrator Count

Multiple

Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

MMC: dark/tortured soul

childhood traumadeathdeath of loved oneparental deathtraumaabandonmentgriefholocaust referenceslonelinesswar

World & Setting

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Reading Context

beautiful grief sign in to unlock

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