Nicole Krauss

A fabulous, heartbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new American writers to emerge in recent years. 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...

Leo Gursky is an old man living alone in New York. In Poland sixty years earlier, he wrote a book called The History of Love, inspired by his lover Alma. But when they were parted by the war, circumstances ensured they could never be together again and Leo's book was lost. If only he could find it. If only he...

Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour 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...

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011, this is an astonishing new novel from the bestselling author of The History of Love. In New York, a woman spends a night with a young Chilean poet before he departs, leaving her his desk. Later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police... In North London, a man caring for his dying...