Leo eventually does escape to New York, where as a locksmith, he is a "man who became invisible." His book about Alma, he eventually learns, has disappeared in a flood. When the Nazis threaten Poland and Alma flees, Leo, unsure of whether he will escape, gives the book for safekeeping to his best friend, who has secured a visa and is sailing to Lisbon. The novel is the story of a book entitled The History of Love, written by Leo Gursky at age twenty in Slonim, Poland, a book he has written to celebrate the extraordinary love he has shared with Alma Mereminski, whom he has known since childhood. The History of Love is one of the most imaginative and engaging pieces of literary fiction of the past year (at least!). He stands in the door holding the greasy bag while I wonder if this is the night I'll finish off my spring roll, climb into bed, and have a heart attack in my sleep."īelieve the hype.
Whenever he comes I make a big production of finding my wallet. If I had to bet, I'd bet on the delivery boy from the Chinese take-out. "I often wonder who will be the last person to see me alive. 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.(We are so impressed with this book, we have posted 3 reviews for the same book. 'Wonderfully affecting.brilliant, touching and remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph 'A tender tribute to human valiance. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. ' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. 'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love.
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