![]() A short time after, the Germans invade Poland and Leo takes cover in the woods, living on roots, small animals, bugs and what he can steal from farmers' cellars. Leo does not know that Alma is pregnant and dreams of going to America to meet her. Leo promises he will never love anyone but her.Īlma, now 20, is sent to the United States by her father, who feared the alarming news concerning Nazi Germany. ![]() In this time, Leo writes three books that he gives to Alma, since she is the only person he deeply cares about. The two begin a relationship that develops over the course of 10 years. In Poland, approximately 70 years before the present, the 10-year-old Polish-Jewish Leopold (Leo) Gursky falls in love with his neighbor Alma Mereminski. ![]() Īn excerpt from the novel was published in The New Yorker in 2004 under the title The Last Words on Earth. ![]() The History of Love: A Novel is the 2005 novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss.The book was a 2006 finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for fiction. ![]()
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