Nik's review
The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
One minute after finishing the last page of this book, I opened up to the first page and started reading again. I didn't want its magic to be over.
Read this passage and feel your mind explode:
There are passages of my book I know by heart.
By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly.
My heart is weak and unreliable. When I go it will be my heart. I try to burden it as little as possible. If something is going to have an impact, I direct it elsewhere. My gut for example, or my lungs, which might seize up for a moment but have never yet failed to take another breath...The pancreas I reserve for being struck by all that's been lost. It's true that there's so much, and the organ is so small. But. You would be surprised how much it can take, and all I feel is a quick sharp pain and then it's over. Sometimes I imagine my own autopsy. Disappointment in myself: right kidney. Disappointment of others in me: left kidney.
...Yesterday I saw a man kicking a dog and I felt it behind...more
Read this passage and feel your mind explode:
There are passages of my book I know by heart.
By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly.
My heart is weak and unreliable. When I go it will be my heart. I try to burden it as little as possible. If something is going to have an impact, I direct it elsewhere. My gut for example, or my lungs, which might seize up for a moment but have never yet failed to take another breath...The pancreas I reserve for being struck by all that's been lost. It's true that there's so much, and the organ is so small. But. You would be surprised how much it can take, and all I feel is a quick sharp pain and then it's over. Sometimes I imagine my own autopsy. Disappointment in myself: right kidney. Disappointment of others in me: left kidney.
...Yesterday I saw a man kicking a dog and I felt it behind...more
you wrote:"One minute after finishing the last page of this book, I opened up to the first page and started reading again. I didn't want its magic to be over. "
that's exactly how i felt!!!! only i didn't, just flipped through it and re-read some passages.
