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A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; holiday lovers will struggle in the harsh reality of daily routine... As Schlink's characters navigate their lives, we discover the many faces of love: the small betrayals, hidden truths and abiding affections. In Schlink's trademark spare prose, we come face-to-face with the desires and jealousies that define our daily lives, with the fragility of happiness, and with the abiding possibility of hope. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, SUMMER LIES asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be human.
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Summer Lies, Bernhard Schlink
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Summer Lies
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bernhard Schlink
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 229
- ISBN10
- 0297867008
- ISBN13
- 9780297867005
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, German Literature, Contemporary Romance, USA, Germany, Relationships, Stories, Death, New York, Loss, Seas and Oceans, Lies, Existentialism
- First published
- 2010
- Original title
- Sommerlügen
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; holiday lovers will struggle in the harsh reality of daily routine... As Schlink's characters navigate their lives, we discover the many faces of love: the small betrayals, hidden truths and abiding affections. In Schlink's trademark spare prose, we come face-to-face with the desires and jealousies that define our daily lives, with the fragility of happiness, and with the abiding possibility of hope. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, SUMMER LIES asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be human.