Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.


NICOLE KRAUSS was born in New York in 1974.Her first novel Man Walks Into a Room was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award.Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker Esquire and Best American Short Stories.The History of Love has been translatd into more than twenty-five languages.Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn New York.