Summary
Nicole Krauss: A History of Love
Nicole Krauss was born in 1974 in New York and has already published several books. However, her book The History of Love will surely be a pleasant surprise for our audience as well. The book talks about lost loves, loneliness and the intertwining of destinies in a way that only literature can present. The Jew Leo Gursky, one of the novel's main characters, falls in love with Alma and has a son with her. For the sake of security in occupied Poland, separating and losing track of her. He wrote a novel about her, The History of Love, which he entrusted to a friend. He hides for the occupations in the woods, so that no one discovers him... Leo Gursky emigrates after the war to New York, living modestly. Middle-aged Leo is haunted by the terrible thought that he will remain invisible in that part of the world, so he does everything, mostly in a bizarre way, to draw attention to himself. At the same time, the writer will reveal the life story of the girl Alma, who was named after his character from the lost novel The History of Love.
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