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|title=The History of Love

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|pages=272

|publisher=Penguin Books Ltd

|date=January 2006

|isbn=978-0141019970

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Alma Singer is almost 15 years old. She was named after every girl in a book called ''The History of Love''. Alma believes that she can find the real Alma from the book. She doesn't know Leo Gursky, or that he was the real author of ''The History of Love'', or that he's in New York, or that he's never stopped loving Alma Mereminski, whom he wrote about 60 years before. Leo Gursky is a survivor - he survived the Holocaust, Alma leaving for America, and even finding out that the woman he loves married another. What Leo doesn't know is that ''The History of Love'' also survived the trip from Poland to South America without him, was translated from Yiddish into Spanish, and although very few people ever read it, is now being translated into English by Alma Singer's mother. This is the story of Nicole Krauss's book ''The History of Love''.

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|comment= Fabulous first fifty pages – Leo and Bruno are Lemmon and Matthau which is why the following pages were such a disappointment. I left the novel in a hotel room, something I have never done before; perhaps someone else will fall in love with it...

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