Flights of Love

Flights of Love

by Prof Bernhard Schlink (Author)

Synopsis

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.

$4.63

Save:$12.22 (73%)

Quantity

3 in stock

More Information

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

Media Reviews
A collection of stories about love by the author of The Reader, which I understand has sold over 230,000 paperbacks to date. There are seven stories which explore how people react to love and how it affects them. We also see the power of desire and self-betrayal. It is a very moving harvest of stories, told with great skill and understanding. One of my favourites is 'Girl with Lizard' about a painting acquired by a judge during the war which fascinates his son who inherits it, and leads him to try and find out more about both the painting and the artist.
Author Bio
Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. A professor of law at the University of Berlin and a practising judge, he is the author of the major international best-selling novel THE READER as well as several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.