The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)

Nicole Krauss: The History of Love
Original title: The History of Love
Ddate of publishing: 11.11.2010
N° od pages: 280
Binding: Tvrdá väzba / Hardback
ISBN: 978-80-89445-05-9
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Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss

(1974)

Born in New York to an English mother and an American father with roots in Germany, Ukraine, Hungary and Belarus, Nicole Krauss is one of the three most important young American writers today (next to her husband, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dave Eggers). 

She has been writing since she was fourteen. She studied English at Stanford University and has gained various awards for poetry while studying. There she also met with Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet, who helped her a lot and introduced her to other poets. She also studied at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute in London. In 2002 Nicole released her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room. She is married and has two children. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Slovak translation of Otto Havrilla holds the writer´s purposeful strategy to light up a humorous, sometimes very poetic style that tells a sad story with a happy ending.

History of Love is a kind of tribute for items lost, for unsolved mysteries. Heroes are set in contemporary New York, each of the narrators has yet own style, own story, but slowly start to intertwine with each other, as well as with a mysterious manuscript book of the same name. Leo Gursky is an old immigrant returning to the memories of his native Poland, that surreptitiously monitors the life of his re-found son. Alma Singer, youthful girl who must cope with the death of his father and searches for a woman, which she was named after - the main character of the mysterious novel ...

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