‘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 olnger.He spends his days dreaming of the lost love that sixty years ago in Poland inspired hinm to write a book.And although he does n t know it yet that book also survieved:corssing oceans and generations and changing lives…
作者简介 · · · · · ·
NICOLE KRAUSS was born in New York in 1974.Her first novel Man Walks Into a Room was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award.Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker Esquire and Best American Short Stories.The History of Love has been translatd into more than twenty-five languages.Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn New York.