The history of love
New York : Norton, 2005.
252p.
Leo Gursky, an aged Manhattan locksmith, once lived in Poland and wrote a Yiddish novel that was lost. Alma Singer, a 14-year-old Brooklynite, was named for a character in that novel. In this mystery and meditiation on love, loss, and Jewish experience, Zvi Litvinoff publishes Leo's book and brings Leo and Alma together.
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