Used Book – The History of Love, Nicole Krauss, Bernard Hoepffner, Catherine Goffaux

In New York, young Alma doesn't know how to cope with her father's death. She believes she'll find the solution in a book her mother is translating from Spanish, whose heroine shares her first name. Not far away, a very old man begins to write again, resurrecting the Poland of his youth, his lost love, the son who grew up without him. And in Chile, many years earlier, an exile is writing a novel. Three lonely individuals, yet unknowingly united by the most intimate of bonds: a single book, The History of Love, whose ending each of them must write in their own way. This admirable novel, haunted by the Shoah, offers a heartbreaking meditation on memory and grief. But above all, it is a hymn to life, written in a vibrant and joyful language, an affirmation of a love stronger than loss, and a celebration, in the tradition of Borges, of the magical powers of literature. It immediately establishes Nicole Krauss as a leading novelist. Winner of the 2006 Best Foreign Book Award