Recently, I finished Nicole Krauss's A History of Love, a novel I mentioned in one of my previous posts. At that time, I had only ventured a little ways into the plot, but knew it would be one for the books, so to speak. I couldn't have been more right. Like I said, Krauss is a marvelous storyteller with a knack for developing characters so tangible that you'd think they really existed. Her prose is richly subtle, but beautifully harsh as she interweaves the past and present; and delves into the significance of what we lose in a lifetime.
The History of Love centers on Leo Gursky, a depressed and lonely old man lamenting the great losses of his life and Alma Singer, a young girl coping with the death of her father and despondency of her mother. They are brought together by parallel quests to find meaning and by a book written many years before called The History of Love.
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