Fourteen-year old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness.  Believing that she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author.  Across New York and old man named Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer.  He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book.  And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives.

Author biography

Nicole Krauss is the author of Man Walks into a Room, and the international bestsellers The History of Love and Great House.  Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five lnaguages.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York.