![]() ![]() It is truly a history of love: a tale brimming with laughter, irony, passion, and soaring imaginative power. Thus extraordinary book was inspired by the author's four grandparents and by a pantheon of authors whose work is haunted by loss-Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, and more. She was a lot like The History of Love ’s 14-year-old narrator, Alma Singer, who wants to be a survivalist, compiles obsessive lists, and is an avid collector. ![]() Nicole Krauss gradually draws together their stories. And although she has her hands full-keeping track of her brother, Bird (who thinks he might be the Messiah), and taking copious notes on How to Survive in the Wild-she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. Free is easily reached in our digital library an online access to it is set as public for that reason you can download it. Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that very book. Fairly or not, The History of Love tends to be compared to the work of Krausss then-husband Jonathan Safran Foer. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. ![]() Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive.īut life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born. ![]()
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