The History of Love: Nicole Krauss - Brossura

Krauss, Nicole

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ISBN 10: 0241973635 ISBN 13: 9780241973639

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2015

Riassunto

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, The History of Love explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'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 longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago 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 a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday

'Devastating...one of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one's breath away' Spectator

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L'autore:

Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. Her first novel Man Walks into a Room, to be published by Penguin in 2006, was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

'When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say LEO GURSKY IS SURVIVED BY AN APARTMENT FULL OF SHIT.'

Leo Gursky is an old man living alone in New York. In Poland sixty years earlier he wrote a book called The History of Love, inspired by his lover Alma. But when they were parted by the war, circumstances ensured they could never be together again and Leo's book was lost. If only he could find it. If only he wasn't so alone.

Meanwhile, across the city, fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to cure her mother's loneliness. Thinking the answer may lie in the old book her mother is translating - called The History of Love - Alma sets out to find its author. She hopes to save her family but along the way she discovers that something bigger may be at stake . . .

'Wonderfully affecting, brilliant, touching' Sunday Telegraph

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0241973635
• ISBN 13: 9780241973639
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272