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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, 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 created my mother named me after each girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love. . . 'Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is wanting to find a cure on her behalf 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 NY a vintage man called Leo Gursky is wanting to survive a bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years back 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 way of a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday'Devastating...one of the very most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It requires one's breath away' Spectator Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who have received international critical acclaim on her behalf 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.
