by Nicole Krauss · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499239601
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«Die Geschichte der Liebe» is Nicole Krauss's novel, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback (352 pages, in German).
In present-day New York, Leo Gursky, an elderly Polish immigrant, recalls the manuscript he wrote as a young man as proof of love, which disappeared during the war. Alma, a girl who owes her name to the protagonist of that book, searches for its author. Two stories that end up meeting in a novel about memory and chance.
Translation by Grete Osterwald of the original «The History of Love», Nicole Krauss's second novel, in the rororo collection. It won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award; shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
For reading groups and for those seeking contemporary literary fiction with historical and romantic undertones.
Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.
