The History of Love

From Nicole Krauss, author of Man Walks Into a Room, comes an extraordinary book inspired by the author's four grandparents and by a pantheon of authors whose work is haunted by loss—Bruno Schulz, Franz Kafka, and Isaac Babel, among others. Truly a history of love, Krauss's newest novel brims with laughter, irony, passion, and soaring imaginative power.

Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 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.