Originally published as hardcover in 2005, WW Norton
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And here's a theory you may try out at your next book cocktail party or whatever social soiree you book industry people engage in when not working – Foer wrote The History of Love. (Or Krauss wrote Everything Is Illuminated and/or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Either way.) It’s gotta be true. When these two die and someone writes the biography of this writer/couple, it will somehow be uncovered that one of them is the author of all three of these books. Or hey, maybe they cowrote everything? That would be more plausible…
Amazon description - A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Leo Gursky is just about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. 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 though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character in that very book. And although she has her hands full—keeping track of her brother, Bird (who thinks he might be the Messiah), and taking copious notes on How to Survive in the Wild—she undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With consummate, spellbinding skill, Nicole Krauss gradually draws together their stories.
This extraordinary book was inspired by the author's four grandparents and by a pantheon of authors whose work is haunted by loss—Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, and more. It is truly a history of love: a tale brimming with laughter, irony, passion, and soaring imaginative power.
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