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  A History of Love -- Was Bruno real?

  Was Bruno a real person, or someone Leo invented to help him deal with his lonliness?

  raimster started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Winona 

  This book really confused me for some reason, although I had two friends who loved it. I don't think Bruno was real. what do you think?

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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    raimster 

    I think that Bruno was a childhood friend who died and that Leo brought back to help him deal with the lonliness of his later years.

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  judy a 

  This was the only thing about an otherwise WONDERFUL novel that I didn't like. How could Bruno be a figment of Leo's imagination if Bruno comes (with a bullhorn!) and wakes Leo up with news of Leo's appearance in an article - or whatever it was?
  I felt betrayed if Bruno's presence in old man Leo's life was a fiction. I think Bruno WAS real as a young man, and maybe he WAS killed in 1941 with everyone else in the village, but the reunion scene was so vivid and all the other Bruno scenes in the present as well. So if he isn't real in Leo's present-day life, I feel conned.

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