A richly layered narrative intertwines the lives of three characters connected across time and place. Leo Gursky, an elderly Polish-born immigrant in New York, lives with the quiet weight of a love lost and a book he wrote decades earlier in wartime Poland. Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer, mourning her father and observing her mother’s loneliness, becomes captivated by that same book—The History of Love—now being translated by her mother. Determined to uncover the identity of its mysterious author, Alma embarks on a search that leads her into Leo’s past, where a long-lost manuscript begins to bridge generations, continents, and lifetimes.
Technical details:
• Pages: 252
• Publication year: 2005 (original U.S. edition)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Language: English