The History of Love
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).
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At first, I thought it was a little slow, and I wasn't really sure there was a point. Then, it became almost a mystery and I got very emotionally attached to the two main characters. I think the author did a great job in writing something so deeply emotional that also made you think. I'm glad I stuck with it, I can see why someone may not be able to get into it, though. The beginning was hard to get through!
Love the author's writing style, also. I thought the "And yet" at the end of Leo Gursky's sentences was natural. The way she wrote out Alma and Bird's sections seemed natural to me too, for some reason. It also reminded me of her husband's form.
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I want to read this because it sounds interesting and I love her husband's work, Jonathan Safron Foer.
Love the author's writing style, also. I thought the "And yet" at the end of Leo Gursky's sentences was natural. The way she wrote out Alma and Bird's sections seemed natural to me too, for some reason. It also reminded me of her husband's form.
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I want to read this because it sounds interesting and I love her husband's work, Jonathan Safron Foer.
A very wonderful read. One of the first books I ever read where I put it down frequently so as to delay its ending. It was a page turner but yet I didn't read through it frantically. Had to let it sit and digest the beauty of the characters and sentences.
Absolutely one of the best books that I have read. Nearly half-way through, I was getting a bit confused with the different storylines, but they all came together in such a great way. I loved this book!!!
A beautiful and sad story. I appreciate stories like this where the reader's perspective changes as more information comes to light.
I'm usually good at following books with confusing starts- but this one was like a book, inside of a book, with a story on the side. I really wanted to like it, but I just never "got it". :-(
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