The History of Love - Brossura

Krauss, Nicole

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393328627 ISBN 13: 9780393328622

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2006

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Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl, named for one of the book's characters, seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. By the author of Man Walks Into a Room. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE

A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son, and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book... Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill, and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of “extraordinary depth and beauty.”

“Vertiginously exciting.” —New York Times

“At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious.” —Washington Post

“Krauss writers like an angel.” —Guardian

“One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one’s breath away.” —Spectator

“It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith” —Ali Smith

“It’s the sort of book that makes life bearable after all.” —Miami Herald
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as “one of America’s most important novelists.” She is the author of the international bestseller Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Man Walks Into a Room. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.

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Book by Krauss Nicole

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393328627
• ISBN 13: 9780393328622
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252