"Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark, they parted with leaves in their hair."
Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark, they parted with leaves in their hair."
-Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
This is an entrancing story that weaves together the lives of very real characters into one masterpiece. The personalities of the characters are so vivid, so perfectly flawed, that your heart grows attached to them as the story unfolds and the end of the story only leaves you wishing you hadn't read it so quickly. The story line is laid out in a nontraditional pattern and engages the reader in interpreting and discovering truths about these people. It's an absolute work of art - my favorite book of all time.
This is her second novel, she also wrote Man Walks Into A Room. Her husband, Jonathan Safran Foer, has a very similar writing style, if you like it. He has written brilliant novels as well including Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Eating Animals (the book behind my decision to become vegetarian).
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