Love Life

Love Life

by Shaun Whiteside (Translator), Ray Kluun (Author)

Synopsis

Dan and Carmen are hip, healthy and wealthy. They have their own companies, plenty of money and friends and are the proud parents of one year-old Luna...They live the cool life in Amsterdam, until beautiful and optimistic Carmen is diagnosed with breast cancer. With that their world transforms into a roller-coaster ride of doctors and hospitals. As his way of coping, the hedonistic Dan faithfully accompanies Carmen to her chemo and radiotherapy treatments, but spends his nocturnal hours crazily immersed in the nightlife and women of Amsterdam and Miami. "Love Life" is the account of a relationship and a terminal illness, devoid of fake sentiment and told with humour and deep humanity. And it is very much an ode to love. 'A wonderful novel about courage, helplessness and real love' - "Cosmopolitan Germany".

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Pan
Published: 06 Apr 2007

ISBN 10: 0330447076
ISBN 13: 9780330447072

Media Reviews
An ode to love. --- NRC Handelsblad Kluun knows how to affect you deeply. --- Marie Claire magazine A wonderful novel about courage, helplessness and real love. --- Cosmopolitan Germany A radical 21st century version of Love Story, --- Der Spiegel (Book of the Week)
Author Bio
Ray Kluun (Kluun to his friends) was a marketing man in a previous life. In 2001 he lost his 36-year-old wife to cancer. Kluun took his daughter Eva (then three years old) to Australia and wrote Love Life, which became a massive word-of-mouth bestseller in Europe, selling 500,000 copies. He has also written a work of satire, Help, I Got My Wife Pregnant, and a bestselling sequel to Love Life, entitled The Widower, which describes the journey through Australia with his daughter in a camper van as they deal with their loss.