The History of Love
Ratings44
Average rating3.8
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Ratings44
Average rating3.8
Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing that 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 named Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer.
He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, 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.
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I'm struggling to rate this. It was beautifully written, the characters cute, but I just couldn't emotionally invest in the story. It felt longer than it needed to be but the final twenty pages were my favourite, I'd have read a hundred more just like them. 3.5*
I am allowing myself to let this one go. I lost the book halfway through reading it last summer. Then found it 4 months later, zipped in to the “secret” compartment in my briefcase. I tried picking it up again but just didn't care. So I'm setting it free now. I guess I'm more Team Foer than Team Krauss.
It broke my heart in exactly the way that real life does, where all I can think is “it's not supposed to be this way” - this is a good thing.
Easily moved into one of the top positions among my favorite books of all times.
Liked it. Didn't love it. But quick and deft and a little bit (occasionally a lot bit) sappy, which sometimes is exactly what I want to read.
