num_pages: 252
description: 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 author.Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days daydreaming of the lost love that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives...
language: English
title: The History of Love
titlecomplete: The History of Love
characters: Mordecai Moritz, Herman Cooper, Leo Gursky, Alma Mereminski, Charlotte Singer, Alma Singer, Isaac Moritz, Misha Shklovsky, Bernard Moritz, David Singer, Zvi Litvinoff, Rosa Litvinoff
genres: Fiction, Book Club, Romance, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Love
ratings_count: 134059
places: Slonim, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Edward Lewis Wallant Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Penguin Books