‘When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love…’

Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother s loneliness Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating she sets out in search of its author.

Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit olnger.He spends his days dreaming of the lost love that sixty years ago in Poland inspired hinm to write a book.And although he does n t know it yet that book also survieved:corssing oceans and generations and changing lives…