The History of Love
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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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Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.
Oh the power of words and stories to make us feel seen and remembered...
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.
