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Rent The History of Love
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: Apr 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $15.95
Pages: 272
Synopsis
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) that had a heroine named Alma, who was based on the woman Leo was in love with. Now a young New York woman named after Leo’s character is looking for the man who wrote the book. That’s Leo. Or is it someone else entirely, a man named Zvi Litvinoff? And what about Bruno, Leo’s upstairs neighbor? And Alma’s widowed mother, Charlotte, who is translating the novel into English? Narrated by several characters in turn, Nicole Krauss’s novel about lonely people trying to connect is based in part on the history of her own grandparents, whose photographs appear at the beginning of the book.
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