The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The other book that I have been working on has been The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. The last time I shut the book I had read 118 pages. The book follows Leo Gursky an old Jewish immigrant, Alma Singer a fourteen year old girl, and the author of The History of Love Zvi Livintoff, or rather his book.

Leo grew up in Eastern Europe during World War II and obviously survived. His love left him for America during the war. He stopped responding to her letters and she thought he'd died. When he moved to the U.S. The first thing he did was look her up. It turned up that she married and that they had a son. He was heartbroken over this and still is. Recently, his son died, a great author. Leo struggles with what his life could have been and what his life has become.

Alma is fourteen her dad recently died. Alma's dad was a scientist, and loved the outdoors. Alma writes "survival guides" to nature related things. They're more like journals of lists though, I believe she's filled three. Her mother is a book translator. She recieved a letter from a man and what I believe was in/from Italy... who asked her to personally translate The History of Love.
The History of Love like I said before is a book in the book that I am reading by Zvi Livintoff. Livintoff's book played a big role in Alma's parents relationship. Alma is named after the main character in the book. So she accepts the job

The other parts of the book are about The History of Love. Livintoff was also an immigrant of eastern Europe, except he lived in Chile. He works there writing his novel. He also meets his wife at a cafe in Chile. It is her that presses him to publish his work. The came to New York City to publish it. It wasn't very sucessful though. In the most recent chapter I followed this one copy of the book. It had been sold to a used book store. The clerk found it one day and read it the same day. He then put it in the window display happy to pass it on to the world. A soldier came into buy it one day (who I believe was Alma's father). The clerk was happy to see it go, and hoped that it would be taken care of....


That's kinda how far I am.. I really like the book. The jumping around kinda makes it confusing at times, but it's alright.