Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 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. It takes one's breath away' Spectator Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three novels- Great House (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011), The History of Love and Man Walks into a Room (shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award), all of which are available in Penguin paperback. 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. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire and Best American Short Stories.The History of Love has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, also to be published by Penguin, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. 'Wonderfully affecting.brilliant, touching and remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph 'A tender tribute to human valiance. Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. 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.

' 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. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger, The History of Love by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love.

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