The History of Love

Title: The History of Love

Author: Nicole Krauss

Pages: 255

Genre: Fiction

Grade: B

Synopsis: The History of Love is a book written by a Polish-Chilean immigrant, but it makes a far reaching impact on a couple of seemingly unconnected people in New York City.  Alma Singer is a young girl in New York City who only knows that she is named after the main character in a Spanish book titled The History of Love.  Leo Gursky is a lonely old man with only one friend, also in New York City, but who will often make a scene when he is out just to have human interaction. Zvi Litvinoff is the Jewish author of the book who fled from Poland to Chile at the beginning of WWII.

My Review: I found this book rather hard to follow as it jumped between three apparently unconnected story lines.  Each of the stories were independently interesting, but my brain had a hard time figuring out just what story was what, until the last chunk of the book.  I did find the ending of the book quite satisfying as it seemed to tie up the loose ends and stories very well.