Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the
2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love explores
the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of
love. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When I
was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father
gave her called The History of Love. . . ' Fourteen-year-old Alma
Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is
lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across
New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little
bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty
years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. And although he
doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and
generations, and changing lives. . . 'Wonderfully
affecting...brilliant, touching and remarkably poised' Sunday
Telegraph 'A tender tribute to human valiance. 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. It takes one's breath away'
Spectator
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