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class="date">(2005)</span></h1><h2>by <a href="/author/kraussnicole">Nicole Krauss</a><hr></h2><div class="authorsandseries"><h3><b>Other authors:</b> See the <a href="#otherauthors">other authors</a> section.</h3></div></div><div class="wslcontainer"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="wsltable"><tr class="wslheader"><td width="18%" class="firstchild">Members</td><td width="18%">Reviews</td><td width="18%">Popularity</td><td width="22%">Average rating</td><td width="25%" class="lastchild">Mentions</td></tr><tr class="wslcontent"><td valign="middle" class="firstchild"><a href="/work/35538/members">9,233</a></td><td valign="middle"><a href="/work/35538/reviews">323</a></td><td valign="middle"><a href="/work/35538/popularity">929</a></td><td valign="middle"><nobr><a href="/work/35538/members"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif" style="margin-bottom: -2px;"></a> <span class="dark_hint">(3.89)</span></nobr></td><td valign="middle" class="lastchild"><a 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old and was named after every girl in a little known book called 'The History of Love' supposedly written by Polish emigrant Zvi Litvinoff which her widowed mother has been asked to translate. Alma sets out to find the real Alma from the book and the man who commissioned her mother to translate it. <br><br>Alma doesn't know that Leo Gursky, the real author of 'The History of Love', now lives in New York, or that he's never stopped loving Alma Mereminski, the girl whom he wrote about 60 years before and who escaped Poland carrying his child just before the arrival of the Nazis in the country. Leo Gursky is a survivor - he survived the Holocaust, Alma leaving for America and finding out that the woman he loves has married another man. What Leo doesn't know is that 'The History of Love' has also survived the trip across the Atlantic without him, was translated from Yiddish into Spanish and published, and although few people have ever read it, it had a special place in Alma Singer's parents' marriage.<br><br>'The History of Love' is a book of parallels. Leo's adoration for Alma Mereminsky parallels Alma Singer's parents' love. Leo and Alma's separation, parallels the death of Alma Singer's father. The manuscript Gursky wrote, and how it came to be published and translated without his knowledge, parallels Gursky's own life of invisibility. And Alma's experiences as she looks for the book's Alma, take place in parallel to Gursky's present life as an old man in New York.<br><br>This book is about love and loneliness in all their forms but is also about searching. Alma Singer is searching for the real Alma Mereminski. Alma's mother is searching for the right words to translate a beloved book into English, Alma's brother is searching for a meaning to his life despite only being 12. And Leo is searching his memories and fantasies. This book is also about history :the history of the manuscript, the history of Leo's friend Zvi Litvinoff, who published Leo's book, the history of Alma Singer as well as the history of Leo's life.<br><br>Krauss uses first person to tell her story meaning that the reader can get and personal with each character. Since Alma is only 14, her immature wanderings of a young girl's mind mix with her determination for her quest. Leo is an old man, his voice has the wisdom of age, mixed with a longing for the past and a need to be noticed. Alma's younger brother's voice as he struggles to find his destiny adds yet another dimension. Krauss succeeds to balance these various voices in a narrative that has an elegance as well as a certain humanity that I found both moving and heart-warming.<br><br>Overall I found this a fascinating and well written book that get me intrigued but was let down a little by a rather rushed ending. A bit of a shame. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273712549" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273712549"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273712549" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273712549" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273712549"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/PilgrimJess" target="_top">PilgrimJess</a> | Oct 25, 2024 | <a href="/review/273712549"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_273107093" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/35538" data-workid="35538" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>***ALL SPOILERS HIDDEN***<br><br>How to sum up <i>The History of Love</i>? Jigsaw puzzle in book form, maybe. For a book only just over 250 pages, it's a lot of story to mull over and piece together. This complicated tale unfolds from the point of view of no fewer than four narrators: an elderly man, Leo; a teen girl, Alma; her prepubescent brother, Bird; and a third-person omniscient narrator. Only because the human characters are so distinct and lovable does it seem there’s not one--or two or three--narrators too many. <i>The History of Love</i>’s characters dazzle, and are arguably the book’s biggest strengths. That Krauss was able to so successfully tell this story from the points of view of three people very different from herself is a testament to just how skilled she is as a writer. <br><br>Continually impressive is this story’s even balance of humor and introspection. Leo is a man who never seems to stop wondering when he will die of a heart attack. The book opens with this: “When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, <i>LEO GURSKY IS SURVIVED BY AN APARTMENT FULL OF SHIT</i>.” This matter-of-fact melancholy permeates many of the sections he narrates; however, later in the story, he’s in full-on comedian mode: <blockquote>Outside, my loyal pigeon cooed and fluttered its wings against the glass. Perhaps I should have given him a name[...]I glanced around. My eye came to rest on the menu from the Chinese take-out. They haven’t changed it for years. <i>MR. TONG’S FAMOUS CANTONESE, SZECHUAN AND HUMAN CUISINE</i>. I tapped the window. The pigeon flapped off. <i>Goodbye, Mr. Tong</i>[...]Night fell and still I was lost. I hadn’t eaten all day. I called Mr. Tong. The Chinese take-out, not the bird.</blockquote> Sometimes you can’t heap enough praise on books that make you love a character simply because you find him so charmingly funny. <br><br>The story is mostly a mystery (although the book could fall under a few genre labels), and that, along with the story’s endearing characters, keeps interest piqued. Who wrote the book within this book (also titled <i>The History of Love</i>)? That's what needs figuring out. <br><br>Unfortunately, however, Krauss’s overall organization is lacking, and for a premise as involved as this, scrupulous attention to organization is crucial. Krauss <i>did</i> put effort into organizing the chapters themselves with defining visuals, and these are a nice touch. The chapters Leo narrates are headed by an anatomically correct sketch of a heart; Alma’s chapters feature a compass; the unnamed narrator’s feature an open book. Visuals are not enough, however, when the lack of organization is in the actual narrative; this book contains two stories in one, and at times that's as confusing as it sounds (two characters with the same first name do not help matters). <spoiler>Leo is the author of <i>The History of Love</i>, but for what seems much longer than necessary, Krauss has the reader believing the author is actually Leo’s childhood friend Zvi Litvinoff</spoiler>. Too much is implied or communicated in riddles, particularly during Leo’s narration. <spoiler>At the end of the book, it’s revealed that another friend of Leo’s, Boris, who figures prominently throughout, has actually been dead for decades.</spoiler> <br><br>Young Alma’s attempt to play matchmaker for her mother fizzles out disappointingly quickly, when this plot thread seemed to show great initial promise. Additionally, the sad-sack mother character gets short shrift and is the least developed of all the characters. This cutesy matchmaker angle could have been left out altogether, with no detriment to the overall story. <br><br>Unfortunately, there’s no drama or intensity in the denouement, and there really should be, given everything leading up to that point. The story starts off strongly, but ends on a limp, somewhat nebulous note. In short, there’s too much going on. It’s a mish-mash of plot lines seemingly connected but not clearly enough to be understood easily on the first reading, just too much stubbornly stuffed into one story. This is a book that begs to be read more than once, not so much because it’s so good but because it’s so convoluted. <br><br>Still, there’s no denying this is engrossing, that it pulls on heart strings from start to finish, and that Krauss’s writing style is striking: “[...]the rustle of clothes being dropped to the floor, of lips fluttering along naked shoulders, beds creaking under the weight of tenderness. It all caught in the delicate pointed shells of his ears and rolled like pinballs through the great hall of his mind.” It’s that kind of writing, along with winning characters, genuine emotion, and well-written humor, that does make this a book worth reading (though perhaps with a notebook in hand for taking notes). <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273107093" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273107093"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273107093" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273107093" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273107093"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Caroline77" target="_top">Caroline77</a> | Oct 8, 2024 | <a href="/review/273107093"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_272478453" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/35538" data-workid="35538" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Alma Singer, 14, tries to find someone to make her widowed mother less lonely, but each connection doesn't pan out. Then her mother is asked to translate an obscure book that Alma's father loved and is the reason she is named Alma. She tries to make a connection between Jacob Marcus, the man requesting the translation, and her mother. But the book itself keeps drawing her in and she begins trying to find out about the author and the character of Alma. The alternating story is that of Leo Gursky, a man at the end of his life reminiscing about his lost love and the books he wrote about it, not realizing that they survived. <br><br>This was an amazing story of lost love and loneliness in all its manifestations. Leo was a curmudgeonly old guy who would not necessarily have been easy to deal with. Alma and her brother Bird are misfits at a difficult point in their lives, both of whom you hope find their way. Highly recommended. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_272478453" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_272478453"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_272478453" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_272478453" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_272478453"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Linda-C1" target="_top">Linda-C1</a> | Sep 26, 2024 | <a href="/review/272478453"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_203027177" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/35538" data-workid="35538" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>To paraphrase author Merritt Tierce, this is a book that made a wound and then stitched it up. It made my heart ache. Krauss really captures in small thoughts and gestures the depth of tenderness Leo feels for the love of his life Alma, for his friend Bruno, and especially for his son Isaac. It’s a book that truly conveyed all the pain and joy and beauty of love.<br><br>And oh my goodness, what a fantastic job narrator George Guidall did on the parts from the POV of Leo Gursky! <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_203027177" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_203027177"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_203027177" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_203027177" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_203027177"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Charon07" target="_top">Charon07</a> | Jun 13, 2024 | <a href="/review/203027177"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_258807806" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/35538" data-workid="35538" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0393328627.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This is one of the greatest, most impactful, passionate, and vibrant books I have EVER read. “The History of Love” left me feeling ripped open and reassured all at once and I don’t know how to fully process my thoughts. I will be rereading and rereading and rereading this book for the rest of my life. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_258807806" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_258807806"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_258807806" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_258807806" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_258807806"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/deborahee" target="_top">deborahee</a> | Feb 23, 2024 | <a href="/review/258807806"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','35538','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','35538','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 1-5 of 301 (<a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',5,0,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','35538','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','35538','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_d0c9911d', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_d0c9911d" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_be9c6fc5_link"><tr><td id="left">1 review</td><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'35538'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> thingScore <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews"><span class="mre_score mre_score_default">unrated</span></a></td></tr></table><div class="bookReview" mr_id="2109" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_f05c3765" title="0.0 Stars" aria-title="0.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ></span></span><div id="brtext_2109" class="commentText">Beskrivelse: <br> I en nedslitt leilighet i New York prøver Leo Gursky å overleve litt til. Hver kveld banker han på radiatoren for at naboen over skal høre at han fortsatt lever.Men livet hans har ikke alltid vært slik. For seksti år siden bodde han hjemme i Polen, der han forelsket seg og skrev en bok. Kjæresten mistet han da hun flyktet til Amerika rett før krigen. Boken ble også borte. Men uten at han selv er klar over det, har den overlevd: Den har krysset hav, blitt overlevert mellom generasjoner, og forandret liv. Fjorten år gamle Alma er oppkalt etter en person i denne boken. Etter at faren hennes døde, er hun fullt opptatt med å finne en ny kjæreste til moren, holde styr på en lillebror som tror han er Messias, og ta utførlige notater i et hefte hun kaller Hvordan overleve i villmarken, Bind tre. En dag dukker det opp et mystisk brev i posten, og Alma begir seg ut på jakt etter sin navnesøster.Personene i Kjærlighetens historie er mennesker man blir glad i. Hver for seg sysler de med gåter som på bemerkelsesverdig vis er forbundet med hverandre. Nicole Krauss har skrevet en medrivende og imponerende sammensatt roman om mennesker som har blitt avkuttet fra sin fortid, og som på hver sin pussige, rørende måte forsøker å få livet til å henge sammen.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/kirstenlund">kirstenlund</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'2109', 'workid':'35538'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.tanum.no/product.aspx?isbn=8202259576" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">www.tanum.no</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div></div></div> </div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_56" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><a name="otherauthors"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'otherauthors', 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Club Selection</a> (<a href="/award/820.0.0.221012/Book-of-the-Month-Club-Selection-October-2015">October 2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/229/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book" class="" >Christian Science Monitor Best Book</a> (<a href="/award/229.0.5/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/229.0.0.2005/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/202/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/202.0.5/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/202.0.0.2005/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year-2005">2005</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/465/Today-Show-Book-Club-selection" class="" >Today Show Book Club selection</a></div></div></div><h2>Notable Lists</h2><div id="u_94c64232" 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class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_originalpublicationdate"></a>Original publication date</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_34e8028c' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='16' name='u_34e8028c' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'originalpublicationdate' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '1952-12-30, 1933-10, 1902, or 120 BCE' ><div class='fwikiItem divoriginalpublicationdate'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=2005&f=16&exact=1&type=1">2005</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_characternames"></a>People/Characters</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_501ff24e' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='3' name='u_501ff24e' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'characternames' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Enter each character's name in a separate box. Examples: Hermione Granger, Andrew Jackson, Oberon, St. Paul of Tarsus, or Zeus (Deity)' ><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Leopold+Gursky">Leopold Gursky</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Alma+Mereminski">Alma Mereminski</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Alma+Singer">Alma Singer</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Zvi+Litvinoff">Zvi Litvinoff</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Emanuel+Chaim+%22Bird%22+Singer">Emanuel Chaim "Bird" Singer</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_6d542488">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_6d542488')">show all 13 items</a>)</div><div id="u_6d542488" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Charlotte+Singer">Charlotte Singer</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Isaac+Moritz">Isaac Moritz</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Bruno">Bruno</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Bernard+Moritz">Bernard Moritz</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mordecai+Mortiz">Mordecai Mortiz</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Rosa">Rosa</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/David+Singer">David Singer</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mischa">Mischa</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_44261762' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='2' name='u_44261762' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Chile">Chile</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Europe">Europe</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Latin+America">Latin America</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Manhattan%2C+New+York%2C+New+York%2C+USA">Manhattan, New York, New York, USA</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/New+York%2C+USA">New York, USA</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_f7ca9a3a">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_f7ca9a3a')">show all 9 items</a>)</div><div id="u_f7ca9a3a" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/New+York%2C+New+York%2C+USA">New York, New York, USA</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Poland">Poland</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Russia">Russia</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/South+America">South America</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_9f403e00' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='34' name='u_9f403e00' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/events/World+War+II">World War II</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_4ef25445' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='37' name='u_4ef25445' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr>     <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_746fe12b' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='28' name='u_746fe12b' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." ' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_0b43bddc' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='30' name='u_0b43bddc' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >For my grandparents, who taught me the opposite of disappearing and for Jonathan, my life</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_96d1a52b' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='25' name='u_96d1a52b' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_8bdc0a78' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='27' name='u_8bdc0a78' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >A thought crossed his face in a language I didn’t understand.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >It’s also true that sometimes people felt things and because there was no word for them, they went unmentioned.  The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved, but to describe it and just to name it – must have been like trying to catch something invisible.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Maybe this is how I'll go, in a fit of laughter, what could be better, laughing and crying, laughing and singing, laughing so as to forget that I am alone, that it is the end of my life, that death is waiting outside the door for me.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. Or better to say, in my face.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_77a7f406">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_77a7f406')">show all 15 items</a>)</div><div id="u_77a7f406" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >You asked if I was married. I was once, but that was a long time ago, and we were clever or stupid enough not to have a child. We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Having begun to feel, people's desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how much it sometimes hurt. People became addicted to feeling. They struggled to uncover new emotions. It's possible that this is how art was born. New kinds of joy was forged, along with new kinds of sadness: The eternal disappointment of life as it is; the relief of unexpected reprieve; the fear of dying.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >People hurried past me. And everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >"Once I start to think about it, it's hard to imagine any kind of anything—happiness or otherwise—without her. I've lived with Frances for so long that I can't imagine what life would look or feel like with another person."</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I—he—none of us—would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive in, even if no one else could.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I lay in the dark and the silence, which was nothing like the dark and the silence my father lay in as a boy in a house on a dirt street in Tel Aviv, or the dark and the silence my mother lay in on her first night at Kibbutz Yavne, but which held those darknesses and those silences, too.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is part of the history of love.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_890d9182' itemType='1' itemNum='35538' fieldType='26' name='u_890d9182' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. 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