According to Variety, Warner Bros. has bought Nicole Krauss' upcoming novel "The History of Love" as a directing vehicle for Alfonso Cuaron.

The project reteams the director with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban producer David Heyman.

"The History of Love," to be published in May by W.W. Norton, tells the story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.