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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADEA 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.”“Vertiginously exciting.” —New York Times“At least as heartbreaking as it is hilarious.” —Washington Post“Krauss writers like an angel.” —Guardian“One of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction. It takes one’s breath away.” —Spectator“It restores your faith in fiction. It restores all sorts of faith” —Ali Smith“It’s the sort of book that makes life bearable after all.” —Miami HeraldNicole Krauss has been hailed by theNew York Timesas “one of America’s most important novelists.” She is the author of the international bestsellerGreat House, a finalist for the National Book Award, andMan Walks Into a Room. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.

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Published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2006.

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ISBN Details

ISBN-13: 393328627

Number of Pages

272 pages

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