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Wow, what a book. I just happened by it and am glad I did. Please go into this book knowing it is very confusing. Pay close attention. It is a very well written book and Leo Gursky is an amazing character. The writer makes you really have to think to put things together and then you still don't really know what happened, but along the way you fall in love with the characters stories of love and loss. I have several of my friends reading it now so we can compare notes and then I plan to read it over again. I can't wait to suggest it to my book club. It will make great conversation.
I found this story very interesting, and enjoyed it. The point that makes this story interesting is that the characters whom the story's POV takes place from is an old man who reminisces about a love he lost, and a young girl who wonders if the story that inspired her name and her history actually have a common thread. The best way to read this book is to not skim the pages. However, its every pore can not be thoroughly examined, every rock oerturned. The chapters should taken not as ingredients, yet as pieces of a pie that combined, make the past and the future intertwine. Well written in a contemporary style.
The History of Love, is truly a brilliant work of writing from the perspective of two main characters, with several "minor" characters also evoking their points of views. This book is haunting from the onset, and reads like a very well written surrealistic book... ala Ernesto Sabato "Sobre Heroes y Tumbas"... it is brilliant in that you need to read it slowly and reread some extraordinary passages, which make you take a deep breath and say: gorgeous writing... It is a book about tremendous loss, the Holocaust, the loss of a father for a young daughter...the loss of a son... fear of death, fear of living... mourning, and it is juxtaposed by wanting to live, discover and uncover motives, personal and otherwise. It is a highly challenging read, in that you are never sure what will happen and you are given so many clues. It is a beautiful piece of literature... it is definitely written in a very different genre from other novels touching the same topics of life, love, and death...Read full review
The book was recommended to me by a highly respected, well-read friend. It's an unusual style of writing and I have loved every word since the first one. There's a captivating quality that makes me feel as though I have lived parts of this story. Clearly it was well researched, but most of all, it's just a really good read!
I initially had a hard time getting into the book, but ended up enjoying the read. Appears easy to read, but if you skim you miss important details that show up later and you have to go back for the details.