by Nicole Krauss · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467220995
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«La historia del amor» is the novel by Nicole Krauss, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
Leo Gursky, a retired Polish locksmith in New York, receives the manuscript of a text he thought was lost. Nearby, fifteen-year-old Alma Singer tries to find a new husband for her mother. When a rare novel, written in Yiddish and published in Spanish, appears, their stories intertwine in a plot about love, memory, and chance.
The novel was originally published in English as The History of Love and was translated by Ana M. de la Fuente. The Círculo de Lectores edition is from 2006 and the work was a finalist for the Orange Prize.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction who appreciate intimate stories about loss, memory, and family bonds.
Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.
