Amazon:
A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

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 soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).

On its way to ReallyBookish via the wishlist-tag game. Hope you enjoy it!

Received today from eponine38. Thank you so much!

Hmm... good, but not great. I was pulled into the initial premise and I liked the writing style, but the pace seemed to bog down considerably for a good chunk of the middle section of the novel. The structure is unique, which I enjoyed, but I'm not sure it totally worked.

I found out after I started reading this book that Krauss used to be married to the author Jonathan Safran Foer. That actually makes a lot of sense, because some of their writing techniques are similar.

I'm not sorry I read this, but it isn't the kind of book I would wholeheartedly recommend to others. It just felt as if it didn't quite live up to its potential for me.

This is headed out to maggiesma as part of the wishlist tag game. Enjoy!

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