Leo Gursky is sure he doesn’t have long to live. He’s 80-something, has a heart problem, and lives alone and lonely in New York. But years ago, in Poland, he wrote an autobiographical novel (called THE HISTORY OF LOVE) tha...

"[An] elegiac novel . . . achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity."-Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The New York Times Book Review (front page)For twenty-five years, a reclu...

Krauss tells her strange story--a knotty combination of psychological novel and cautionary science-fiction tale--with considerable finesse....A bit too theme-driven and intermittently static, but Krauss is a highly intelligent writer.

National BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2017Named Best Book of 2017 by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, Popsugar, and Globe and Mail&q...