Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006
Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, The History of Love by bestselling author
Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the
lasting power of love. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl
in a book my father gave her called The History of Love. . . '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 love lost that 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. . .
'Wonderfully affecting...brilliant, touching and remarkably poised' Sunday
Telegraph'A tender tribute to human valiance. Who could be unmoved by a
cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such
diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday'Devastating...one of the most
passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes
one's breath away' Spectator Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling
author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three
novels: Great House (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011),
The History of Love and Man Walks into a Room (shortlisted for the LA Times
Book Award), all of which are available in Penguin paperback.