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"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
After seeing this book a lot around, I desided that I had to read it. At first I struggeled a bit to get into the story, but I'm glad I continued reading. Because the book is beautiful, filled with love, hope and loss.
The main story is about Leo Gursky. He's an author, but has never published a book. Before ww2 he lived in Poland, and fell in Love with Alma. Leo wrote ...more
After seeing this book a lot around, I desided that I had to read it. At first I struggeled a bit to get into the story, but I'm glad I continued reading. Because the book is beautiful, filled with love, hope and loss.
The main story is about Leo Gursky. He's an author, but has never published a book. Before ww2 he lived in Poland, and fell in Love with Alma. Leo wrote ...more
"The History of Love" is an incredible book. Centering around two protagonists, Leo Gursky, a Holocaust survivor living in New York, and Alma, a young girl looking for the woman she was named after, the story slowly develops and culminates in a beautiful and emotional ending.
To me, everything about this book is just right: Each narrator has their own distinct voice and tells their story in an authentic and direct manner. There are three storys in one (of Alma, Leo [both first-person] and about ...more
To me, everything about this book is just right: Each narrator has their own distinct voice and tells their story in an authentic and direct manner. There are three storys in one (of Alma, Leo [both first-person] and about ...more
I didn't really like this book. It seemed to take an extraordinarily long time to pull together the various threads of the plot.
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At times I thought this book was terrible. Other times I thought that the writing was absolutely beautiful.
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