Synopsis
Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago in the Polish village where he was born Leo fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in honour of his love. These days he assumes that the book, and his dreams, are irretrievably lost, until one day they return to him in the form of a brown envelope. Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author. Soon these and other worlds collide in "The History of Love", a captivating story of the power of love, of loneliness and of survival.

Duplicate copy to be released

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If you find this please journal, leave a review and then send it on its travels.

You were referred by MrsDanvers

Picked it up and took it to Berlin. :)

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Auf dem üblichen Regal, etwa in Augenhöhe.

Picked up at the Café Bilderbuch. I'm not even sure I will get around to reading it (if not, I'll simply pass it on) but it does sound interesting.

This is the first time I see one of those BC post-its for real - it would sure save a lot of work... I'll have to reconsider. And such a cute label! :)

Well, I read it, and rather quickly too, though I must say I didn't really "get" it. Not because of the intertwined perspectives - that was fine - but because I was constantly trying to put together the connections, and miserably failed. :( I didn't much care for the book itself, that is the chapter excerpts of the actual "History of Love". What I did like were the various letters and Alma's notes. To me the book only became truly interesting when the different threads finally started to converge, when it finally started to make sense.
I liked the ending well enough, but it's still leaving me confused. Frankly, I've no idea where all those raving reviews come from...

I'm not entirely sure what I'll do with this book now, though I'll probably either RABCK it to someone (though I don't know who yet) or, failing that, take it along to a meet-up.

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Okay, so I changed my mind when I remembered that today was Valentine's Day. Instead I'll release it at a nearby café that has lots of non-German customers.

Oh, and I added "Berlin" to MrsDanvers' list of places near the beginning of the book.

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CONGRATULATIONS!
You've found a wandering book! Please leave a short (or not so short ;) ) journal entry, so I know that the book's well and safe in your hands. For example, you could write where you found it, how you like it, or what you are planning to do with it.

Thanks a lot!
erinacea

PS: While I enjoy writing these texts in English, there's no obligation for you to do the same. If you like, you could make an entry in German, or whatever your mothertongue may be.
(Einträge auf deutsch sind auch erlaubt. ;) )

I was as pleased as Punch during I fishing this book in Lesecafé Marcondo.
I'll be rejoice to accompany the literary couple in search of their own roots, with my thoughts.