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082	0		_aFIC KRA
100	1		_aKrauss, Nicole
245	1	4	_aThe history of love _c/ Nicole Krauss
260			_aNew York _b: W. W. Norton and Company _c, c2005.
300			_a252 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aLeo 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.
650			_aAuthors _v--Fiction
650		4	_aImmigrants _v--Fiction
650		4	_aLost literature _v--Fiction
650		4	_aBooks and reading _x--Fiction
650		4	_aLoss (Psychology) _v--Fiction
651		4	_aPoland _v--Fiction
655		7	_aPsychological fiction
655		7	_aLove stories
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