num_pages: 252
description: Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter at Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And although he doesn't know it, that book also survived: it crossed oceans and generations, and changed lives.Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that book. She has her hands full keeping track of her little brother Bird (who thinks he might be the Messiah) and taking copious notes in her book, How to Survive in the Wild Volume Three. But when a mysterious letter arrives in the mail she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family.
language: English
title: The History of Love
titlecomplete: The History of Love
characters: Leo Gursky, Charlotte Singer, Isaac Moritz, Alma Mereminski, Rosa Litvinoff, Misha Shklovsky, Alma Singer, Bernard Moritz, Mordecai Moritz, Zvi Litvinoff, Herman Cooper, David Singer
genres: Book Club, Historical Fiction, Love, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 134053
places: New York City, New York, Slonim
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: W. W. Norton & Company