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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.
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Flights of love, Bernhard Schlink
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Flights of love
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bernhard Schlink
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0297829033
- ISBN13
- 9780297829034
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Love, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, German Literature, Contemporary Romance, Germany, Erotica, Relationships, Stories, Life, Past, Escape, Desire, Present, Scandals and Affairs, Men
- First published
- 2000
- Original title
- Liebesfluchten
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- 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.