The History of Love

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Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago in the Polish village where he was born Leo fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in honour of his love. These days he assumes that the book, and his dreams, are irretrievably lost, until one day they return to him in the form of a brown envelope.

Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author. Soon these and other worlds collide in The History of Love, a captivating story of the power of love, of loneliness and of survival.

About Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestsellers Forest Dark, Great House (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize) and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was shortlisted for the Orange, Médicis and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and were collected in To Be A Man, which received the Wingate Prize. She was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Her books have been translated into 38 languages.

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