The History of Love

Author: Nicole Krauss

Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago in the Polish village where he was born Leo fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in honour of his love. These days he assumes that the book, and his dreams, are irretrievably lost, until one day they return to him in the form of a brown envelope.

Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author. Soon these and other worlds collide in The History of Love, a captivating story of the power of love, of loneliness and of survival.

Also by Nicole Krauss

Book Cover:  Man Walks into a Room

Samson Greene has been missing or eight days when he is discovered wandering through the Nevada desert, 'ragged as a crow' and with on idea who he is.  He is rushed to hospital where doctors save his life, but all his memories after the age of twelve have been permanently lost.  Now, as he looks around the beautiful apartment he apparently shares with his wife and which is filled with all...

Samson Greene has been missing or eight days when he is discovered wandering through the Nevada desert, 'ragged as a crow' and with on idea who he is.  He is rushed to hospital where doctors save...

Published: 17/11/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141021157
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Great House
By Nicole Krauss

In New York a woman spends a night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her his desk. Later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police . . . In north london, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret . . . In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer reassembles his father's study, plundered by the Nazis. One item remains missing . . . .

Spanning...

In New York a woman spends a night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her his desk. Later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police . . . In north london, a man caring for his dying...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670919345
RRP: $19.99
Published:01/05/2006
Format:Paperback, 176 pages
RRP:$22.95
ISBN-13:9780141019970
ISBN-10:0141019972
Publisher:Penguin UK

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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