The History Of Love
Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer, tapping his radia tor each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But lif e wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village wher e he was born,...
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Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer, tapping his radia tor each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But lif e wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village wher e he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And although he does n't know it, that book also survived: it crossed oceans and generation s, and changed lives
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780141025780 (0141025786)
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 385
Edition language: English
This book was painstakingly slow for me. It took me about 3 weeks to read, because I kept putting it aside to read other things. The premise of the book, on the jacket cover, drew me in to the story. The book itself was not as exciting. I did like the book overall. It just took time for me to get in...
Nicole Krauss’ The History of Love is quite possibly my very favorite modern novel. Though I’ve read this story more times than nearly any other (with the exception of Pride and Prejudice), every time I revisit The History of Love, I feel like I’m reading the story for the very first time. I guess t...
I grabbed this from my bookstore job because I liked the title and cover. I vaguely suspected it would be shmaltzy. Which it was, sort of, but I ended up liking it anyway. It reminded me naggingly of Jonathan Safran Foer's work, and I was not surprised to find the two authors are married: they share...
My heart is weak and unreliable. When I go it will be my heart. I try to burden it as little as possible. If something is going to have an impact, I direct it elsewhere. My gut for example, or my lungs, which might seize up for a moment but have never yet failed to take another breath. When I catch ...
Almost unbearably beautiful...:)
12 years ago
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