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Als junger Mann verliebte sich Leo Gursky in seinem kleinen polnischen Dorf in ein Mädchen und schrieb für sie ein Buch. Lange Zeit hielt er das Manuskript für verloren, doch es überquerte die Ozeane, veränderte das Leben von Menschen und gelangt schließlich 60 Jahre später zu ihm zurück.

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 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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Krauss, Nicole
Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. Her first novel Man Walks into a Room, to be published by Penguin in 2006, was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.

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