by Prof Bernhard Schlink (Author)
A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable. FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists of seven stories, all of them weaving around the idea of love - why people are drawn to it and why some run away. Schlink shows us, in turn, love as desire, love as confusion, love as a quick affair, love as a drastic life-changing rebellion, love as a force of habit, love as self-betrayal. The cumulative effect is a book which uses effortlessly beguiling language to examine the universal human desire to find a lasting loving relationship, however thwarted that desire ultimately is.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: W&N
Published: 07 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0297829033
ISBN 13: 9780297829034
Book Overview: THE READER established huge readership - over 230,000 paperbacks sold to date Fans have been eagerly awaiting next book FLIGHTS OF LOVE has been in the German bestseller lists since publication 12 months ago - over 300,000 hardcovers sold