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Amazon.com Review Nicole Krauss's The History of Love is a hauntingly beautiful novel about two characters whose lives are woven together in such complex ways that even after the last page is turned, the reader is left to wonder what really happened. In the hands of a less gifted writer, unraveling this tangled web could easily give way to complete chaos. However, under Krauss's watchful eye, these twists and turns only strengthen the impact of this enchanting book. The History of Love spans of period of over 60 years and takes readers from Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe to present day Brighton Beach. At the center of each main character's psyche is the issue of loneliness, and the need to fill a void left empty by lost love. Leo Gursky is a retired locksmith who immigrates to New York after escaping SS officers in his native Poland, only to spend the last stage of his life terrified that no one will notice when he dies. ('I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even though I'm not thirsty.') Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer vacillates between wanting to memorialize her dead father and finding a way to lift her mother's veil of depression. At the same time, she's trying to save her brother Bird, who is convinced he may be the Messiah, from becoming a 10-year-old social pariah. As the connection between Leo and Alma is slowly unmasked, the desperation, along with the potential for salvation, of this unique pair is also revealed. The poetry of her prose, along with an uncanny ability to embody two completely original characters, is what makes Krauss an expert at her craft. But in the end, it's the absolute belief in the uninteruption of love that makes this novel a pleasure, and a wonder to behold. --Gisele Toueg Read more From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The last words of this haunting novel resonate like a pealing bell. 'He fell in love. It was his life.' This is the unofficial obituary of octogenarian Leo Gursky, a character whose mordant wit, gallows humor and searching heart create an unforgettable portrait. Born in Poland and a WWII refugee in New York, Leo has become invisible to the world. When he leaves his tiny apartment, he deliberately draws attention to himself to be sure he exists. What's really missing in his life is the woman he has always loved, the son who doesn't know that Leo is his father, and his lost novel, called The History of Love, which, unbeknownst to Leo, was published years ago in Chile under a different man's name. Another family in New York has also been truncated by loss. Teenager Alma Singer, who was named after the heroine of The History of Love, is trying to ease the loneliness of her widowed mother, Charlotte. When a stranger asks Charlotte to translate The History of Love from Spanish for an exorbitant sum, the mysteries deepen. Krauss (Man Walks into a Room) ties these and other plot strands together with surprising twists and turns, chronicling the survival of the human spirit against all odds. Writing with tenderness about eccentric characters, she uses earthy humor to mask pain and to question the universe. Her distinctive voice is both plangent and wry, and her imagination encompasses many worlds. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Read more See all Editorial Reviews book synopsisApproximately 70 years before the present, the 10-year-old Polish-Jewish Leopold Gursky falls in love with his neighbor Alma Mereminski The two begin a relationship that develops over the course of 10 years In this time, Leo writes three books that he gives to Alma, since she is the only person he deeply cares about Leo promises he will never love anyone but her Alma, now 20, is sent to the United States by her father, who feared the alarming news concerning fascist Germany Leo does not know that Alma is pregnant and dreams of going to America to meet her A short time after, the Germans invade Poland and Leo takes cover in …Approximately 70 years before the present, the 10-year-old Polish-Jewish Leopold Gursky falls in love with his neighbor Alma Mereminski The two begin a relationship that develops over the course of 10 years In this time, Leo writes three books that he gives to Alma, since she is the only person he deeply cares about Leo promises he will never love anyone but her Alma, now 20, is sent to the United States by her father, who feared the alarming news concerning fascist Germany Leo does not know that Alma is pregnant and dreams of going to America to meet her A short time after, the Germans invade Poland and Leo takes cover in the woods, living on roots, small animals, bugs and what he can steal from farmers' cellars After three and a half years of hiding, he goes to America and finds Alma but is shocked to hear she thought he had died in the war and had married the son of the manager of the factory she works at He is devastated when he finds she has had another child with her husband He asks her to come with him, but she refuses She tells him, however, about his son Isaac who is now five years old Heartbroken, Leo leaves, and later becomes a locksmith under the guidance of his cousin Leo regularly watches Isaac from a distance, wishing to be part of the boy's life but scared to come in contact with him In the present day, Leo is a lonely old man who waits for his death, along with his recently found childhood friend, Bruno, and Alma has been dead for five years Leo still keeps track of his son, who has become a famous writer, much to Leo's enjoyment since he believes Isaac inherited the talent from his father Leo's depression deepens when he reads in a newspaper that his son has died at the age of 60, and Leo develops an obsession with finding his place in his son's world, to the extent that he breaks into Isaac's house to see if he had read Words for Everything, a book about his life that he recently wrote and sent to Isaac Zvi Litvinoff's perspective is introduced In the past, a younger Leo wrote a letter to his old friend Zvi, asking for his manuscript of to be returned to him Leo had given Zvi The History before they parted, years ago However, his wife Rosa informs him that the book was destroyed in a flood, choosing to hide that her husband did not write Zvi also describes an event where Leo fell gravely ill in Poland and wrote his own obituary, after which Zvi stole it in the hope that it would keep his friend alive Unknown to Leo is that the book had been published in a small printing of two thousand copies in Spanish, but under the name of Zvi Litvinoff, who copied the book thinking Leo was killed in Poland Zvi felt so guilty for copying his book that he added his friend's stolen obituary as the last chapter, telling the publisher that including the obituary was conditional to printing the book, although doing so did not make sense with the plot Zvi died later without telling the world about the real author of In a parallel story, a 15-year-old girl, Alma Singer, named after the Alma in , her parents' favorite book, is struggling to cope with the loss of her father due to cancer Her mother becomes distant and lonely, escaping into her work of book translation Her younger brother Bird, so called for jumping from the second story of a building hoping he could fly, seeks refuge in religion and believes himself to be one of God's chosen people, thus distancing himself from reality Alma finds refuge in one of her father's hobbies: surviving in the wild Alma also bears a crush on her Russian pen friend Misha, who has moved to New York The two become a couple but they break up because of Alma's incertitude One day, her mother receives a letter from a mysterious man named Jacob Marcus who requests that she translate from Spanish to English for $100,000, to be paid in increments of $25,000 as the work progresses Alma's mother finds the sum suspicious, but the stranger confesses that his mother used to read the book to him when he was a child, so it has a great sentimental value Alma sees this as an opportunity to help her mother recover from her depression and changes her mother's straightforward letters to Jacob Marcus into more romantic versions When the letters stop before her mother completes the translation of the book, Alma decides to find the mysterious client She starts by noting down what she knows about Jacob Marcus in her diary, and concludes that the Alma in the book was real and proceeds to find her She struggles in her search for Alma Mereminski, but succeeds when she realizes that Alma could have married and finds her under the name of Moritz She is disappointed to hear that Alma has been dead for five years However, she finds out that Isaac Moritz is the first of Alma's sons and a famous writer When she starts reading his bestselling book, she finds that the main character's name is Jacob Marcus and realizes that Isaac Moritz had hired her mother to translate the book Isaac is dead, however, which explains why his letters had stopped coming to their home To be sure about her suspicions, Alma leaves a note on Isaac's door asking who the writer of the novel is In the meanwhile, Bird finds Alma's diary and misinterprets the names Alma Mereminski and Alma Moritz as being his sister's real names, and believes they had different fathers Isaac's brother calls Alma, after reading the note and the original manuscript of the book, to tell her that Gursky is the real author, but Bird answers the telephone and it confuses him even further He now suspects that Leopold Gursky is Alma's real father To cleanse his sin of bragging and to regain the status as one of the chosen ones, he decides to set up a meeting with Alma and Gursky, thus doing a good deed without anybody knowing except God When the two receive the letter regarding their meeting, both are confused: Alma tries to discover which of the people she met during her searches could have sent her the note, while Leo comes to believe it was Alma who sent him the note, despite her being dead Leo settles himself on a park bench, waiting a long while for Alma to appear He ponders his life, key moments from his past, the loss of his love, and what it means to be human He imagines that he will die while he is waiting there, his own death and mortality being one of his preoccupations in the novel When Alma finally appears, he and she are both confused, although at first Leo believes that she is his Alma from the past and that she is really just in his imagination After he realizes that she doesn't look like his Alma, and he gets confirmation from a man walking by that the Alma who is there is actually real, Leo talks to her briefly about Bruno and Isaac, while Alma starts piecing together the puzzle of who Leo is When Alma asks him if he ever loved a girl named Alma Mereminski, the old man finally feels a sense of transcendence in being recognized at long last, and instead of being able to respond to Alma's questions with words, he keeps tapping his fingers twice against her She puts her head on his shoulder and hugs him, and he is finally able to speak again, saying her name three times and giving her her own feeling of transcendence at finally being recognized, too The last chapter is entitled "The Death of Leopold Gursky" and is identical with the last chapter of the book inside a book , both being the self-written obituary of Leopold Gursky By ending the novel this way, Krauss is richly alluding to earlier parts of the novel and to her theme of how words keep people alive for us, indeed, make people in danger of becoming invisible, visible Zvi Litvinoff carried Leo's self-written obit in his pocket for years, as a talisman guarding against Leo's death Litvinoff, when preparing History of Love for publication, insists that his editor include the Leo Gursky obit at the end, his way of ensuring that Leo will continue to "live" in the hearts of all readers of the book And finally, Nicole Krauss includes the same obit at the end of her novel, as a way of urging all readers to keep this Leo, and all Leos, alive Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA licenseSee more Summary - eNotes comhttps enotes com/topics/the-history-of-loveComplete summary of Nicole Krauss' eNotes plot summaries cover all the 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