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The history of love

Author: Nicole Krauss
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©2005.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Love stories
Romance fiction
Fiction
Novels (texts)
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nicole Krauss
ISBN: 0393060349 9780393060348 9780393328622 0393328627 0141019972 9780141019970
OCLC Number: 57452397
Awards: Winner of BOMC's best literary fiction award of 2005.
Winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant award for Jewish fiction.
Description: 252 pages ; 25 cm
Contents: The last words on earth --
My mother's sadness --
Forgive me --
A joy forever --
My father's tent --
The trouble with thinking --
Until the writing hand hurts --
Flood --
Here we are together --
Die laughing --
If not, not --
The last page --
My life underwater --
One nice thing --
The last time I saw you --
Would a Lamed Vovnik do this? --
A + L.
Responsibility: Nicole Krauss.

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Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its  Read more...

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