In tomorrow's Book Review, the always refreshingly frank Laura Miller looks carefully at Nicole Krauss' The History of Love:

It would be unfair to liken Nicole Krauss's second novel, The History of Love, to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the recently published second novel by her better-known husband, Jonathan Safran Foer, except for two things. The first is the deliberate and liberal sprinkling of correspondences between the two books, a system of coy marital cross-referencing that amounts to an engraved invitation to compare and contrast. The second, and more significant, is that Krauss is one of fiction's dutiful daughters. She has written almost entirely under the influence of powerful literary fathers, an assemblage of canonical figures including (to list only those explicitly cited in ''The History of Love''), Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz. That the relatively young and untried Foer has joined them in her pantheon represents only a slight deviation from form. Keep a-reading.