The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
I’ve read this book some years back and was thinking that I would like to read it again (even though I don’t normally reread books). Anyways, I thought this book might also be interesting for many of the people, who I’ve met at the club. Contrary to what the title may imply, it’s not a love story, but more about finding yourself and living life. If this book does get choose, as I remember, this is much better as an actual book than an e-book (just as a heads up).
Here’s a short excerpt/description, which I found on Amazon: 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” (Newsday)
First suggested: May 2014
Supporter(s): Nadya, Nicole, Karina, Leon