THE HISTORY OF LOVE

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, The History of Love by bes tselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word and the lasting power of love.'When I was born my mothe r named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love... 'Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to f ind 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 se...[Read more]