Words for Everything

I've finally finished The History of Love. Let me set a few things straight.

The History of Love was written by Leopold Gursky a survivor of the Holocaust. Before immigrating to the United States Gursky gave his manuscript to his friend Zvi Litvinoff. Litvinoff and the manuscript moved to South America where he met and married Rosa. Rosa found the manuscript and thinking it was Zvi's pressured him to publish which he did. Litvinoff thought Gursky was dead and never found out that he was alive. After publishing Zvi publishedThe History of Love he recieved a postcard from Gursky who asked for his manuscript. Rosa intercepted the mail before Zvi got the chance to read it and kept it from him so that he would not get upset because he was practically on his death bed. Rosa wrote back that the manuscript had been destroyed in a flood. 

Alma Singer went of this ridiculous goose chase for the person who wrote her mother asking her to translate The History of Love. She discovered who it was, famous author Issac Morritz , who uses the pseudonym Jacob Marcus (a name of one of his characters in a book he wrote.) It turns out that this author is the son of Leopold Gursky and Alma Mereminski. Morritz how ever recently died. So then Alma embarks on this crazy journey to find the Alma that the story was written about. She finds out that Alma Mereminski died five years ago and that she was the mother of Issac Morritz. She some how get's in touch with Leo, though I believe it was Bird's doing. They meet in Central Park and she tells him about The History of Love. He tells her that's his book that he wrote. Leo gets really confused because her name is Alma too. He tells Alma S. about his second book Words for everything. He sent that book to his son shortly before his death, so that that way his son new that he existed. The manuscript of Words for Everything was found in Morritz's home shortly after his death and was going through the publishing process in Morritz's name. Gursky calls the publishing company after reading about the book in a magazine and let's the publishing company know that it's his book.

When asked what his name in by the telephone receptionist he says the same as the main character of the book, when asked his address he says the same as the Leopold Gursky's in the book.

The most terrible thing is that in Central Park with Alma Singer Leopold Gursky dies an old, lonely and confused man. His works published never in his name. But I knew from the beginning because Leo was always preoccupied with death.

People die in books and in real life.