num_pages: 255
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 dreaming of the lost love who, 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...An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here
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: 134047
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