![]() However, with all the attention-seeking antics he performs in his latter years, Gursky is anything but invisible. Having lost his entire family to the Holocaust, his first and only love and his novel, there is nothing much left for Gursky to do but to "vanish completely". Alma - having left for America before the war - moves on to begin a family with a man who will raise Gursky's son as his own. When Gursky reaches New York, he discovers he is too late. How did the manuscript Gursky entrusted to a friend in Poland end up being translated from Yiddish into Spanish and published in Chile by a Zvi Litvinoff? This is one of a number of puzzles at the centre of Krauss' elaborate plot. ![]() Yet, it is only until he is near death that Gursky discovers that the novel he wrote for Alma, the only woman he had ever loved, has touched some lives. "All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen." Despite successfully hiding from the Nazis for three and a half years in Poland, Leo Gursky believes his life to be unremarkable. ![]() The mystery begins with Leopold Gursky, "the oldest man in the world", a man so afraid of dying unnoticed he becomes addicted to calling attention to himself in public, whether it's purposefully spilling his popcorn at the movies or knocking over a pharmacy display of K-Y Jelly. How many times can the history of love be written? This is the question at the heart of Nicole Krauss' second novel. ![]()
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