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The illuminating nationwide best-seller: "Vertiginously exciting…vibrantly imagined….[Krauss is] an enormous talent."—Janet Maslin, Ny TimesA long lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting a classic man searching for his son and a woman seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky is simply about surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he is still living. But existence was not always such as this: sixty years back, in the village where he was created, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And although Leo does not understand it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.