3.5
The History of Love
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3.5
“This book is an exploration of love and loss. I found it difficult to follow in the beginning and there’s a deep sadness and weight that’s carried throughout the story and embodied by the characters, specifically Leo but also Alma’s mom. Not going to lie Leo made it difficult to like him in the beginning. The apathetic, “I’ve-given-up-on-everything” was hard to feel sorry for until you learn more about his horrific past, losing everyone he loved to the Nazis and hiding for years to escape death, only to find out the one thing that kept him alive is a person who married someone else and is raising his own child he will spend his whole life not knowing, with her new husband. I thought the parallel story with Alma and Bird and her mom was interesting but sometimes felt like it could have been shortened, so I liked the last half of the book better as those two stories start to intertwine. I’ve been gravitating towards more hopeful stories lately so the morose that underpinned the book made it hard for me to get into initially. The writing style was curt to reflect the characters’ trains of thought which helped to really understand them, but was an adjustment for me. And yet within these blunt statements that often depict the ugly, messy, normal side of life, there were some really powerful reflections of life and love and loss that I think most people can relate to. I liked the ending. In some ways I feel like Leo finally got a small sense of closure and found some meaning and brief happiness at the end of his life.”“Oof this was a push to finish and I think I would have DNF’d it if not for book club. I really did not enjoy the writing style and the ending was anticlimactic. 2 stars feels generous, but I suppose I liked young Alma’s character. I’m not sure if the meaning behind this book just went over my head, but I wouldn’t recommend unfortunately.”
About Nicole Krauss
has been hailed by the
as "one of America's most important novelists." She is the author of
, a finalist for the
Book of the Year;
, a
bestseller and winner of the Saroyan Prize for International Literature;
, a
bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award;
; and most recently,
. In 2007 she was selected as one of
's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen for the
's 'Twenty Under Forty' list. Her fiction has been published in the
,
,
, and
, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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