by Nicole Krauss · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141019970
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«The History of Love» is the contemporary fiction novel by Nicole Krauss, published by Penguin in paperback (252 pages, in English).
The novel interweaves two stories: Leo Gursky, an old man in New York who wrote a book in Poland for his lost love, Alma; and Alma Singer, a teenager searching for the author of an old book her mother translates to ease her loneliness. Their paths converge as they explore memory, the power of writing, and a love that defies time.
Penguin Essentials edition published in January 2006; the work originally appeared in 2005. Complete text in English.
Recommended for book clubs and for readers of contemporary and romantic fiction.
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.
