“The Chronicles of Love” is the second and, as of today, most famous novel by Nicole Krauss. The book has been translated into more than thirty-five languages and has become an international bestseller.
Leo Gursky spends his final days in America. He is sick and old, yet he remembers every moment from the past as if it happened to him only yesterday: sixty years ago in Poland, in the small town where he was born, Leo wrote a book and dedicated it to the girl he loved. War separated them, and for all those years Leo believed his manuscript—the “Chronicles of Love”—was lost forever, until one day it was sent to him by mail. Meanwhile, Alma, fourteen years old and named after the heroine of the “Chronicles,” sets out to find the author of the mysterious book that once changed her mother’s life. The paths of the main characters inevitably cross in this captivating story about love and loneliness.