Alma Singer is trying to find ways to help her mother cope with loneliness. Thinking that the author of a book her mother is translating, fourteen-year-old Alma embarks on a search to find the author. At the same time, Leo Gursky, an elderly Polish man, reflects on the love he lost sixty years ago, which inspired him to write a book which he is unable to locate. The History of Love is an intertwined story of longing and belonging, with a twist of fate. It's an emotionally charged novel that captures the depths of human emotion.
