Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and … and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of “extraordinary depth and beauty” (Newsday).
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I really could not put this book down. I recommended it to all my friends and think it is a wonderful book club choice.
Great book loved how different it was from most books out there.
Didn’t like it much.
Beautifully written.
I’m actually just 2/3 of the way through the book, but the characters are very well drawn and come alive. I don’t know yet how the story of the individual characters end, but the love story on which the book is based, which is about enduring love and loss and the loss of a child even before the death of the child, has echoes of haunting realism for me. The incredible enduring loyalty reflected in the story really gives the reader pause for thought.
Really great book, fun to read, interesting characters – I really enjoyed it and would recommend it freely to anyone interested in drama, family, and comedy as well as mystery.
This was one of my very favorite books ever!