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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.
W. W. Norton
May 2005
252 pages
ISBN: 0393060349
Hardcover
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Contemporary | Fiction
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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