Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
A Novel
“Vertiginously exciting . . . vibrantly imagined. . . . [Krauss is] a prodigious talent.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times
A lost book reappears, drawing together the lives of the irrepressible Leo Gursky who has arrived at the end of his life, a locksmith searching for the son who’s never known him, and young Alma Singer, desperate to find her namesake and a cure for her mother’s loneliness. Gradually their stories merge into a single triumph of the imagination over loss.
“At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious.”—Washington Post
“Brilliant. An achievement of extraordinary depth and beauty.”—Newsday
“The novel’s achievement is precisely, and not negligibly, this: to have made a new fiction—alternately delightful and hilarious and deeply affecting.”—LA Weekly
“Moving and virtuosic.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Luminous prose. . . . Krauss is a masterful storyteller . . . a writer of astonishing breadth.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Ingenious.”—Entertainment Weekly
“A significant novel, genuinely one of the year’s best. Emotionally wrenching yet intellectually rigorous, idea-driven but with indelible characters and true suspense.”—New York
Nicole Krauss is the author of the novel Man Walks into a Room. Her work has appeared most recently in The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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