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Work InformationFlights of Love by Bernhard Schlink (2000)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Maybe you have to be German to understand and like theese short storys. I like his way of describing things and circumstances a lot beacuse most of them had to do with things who happend in the German past. And the sometimes weared way Germans think and do things. Not as great as the Reader but I still liked it a lot. i didn`t like the story sugar pies.
Auch in diesem ErzĂ€hlband fĂŒhrt Schlink die Auseinandersetzung mit der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit und ihren Auswucherungen in der Gegenwart fort, erweitert sie um neue Aspekte. Jede einzelne ErzĂ€hlung ist fĂŒr sich die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Leben und der Geschichte und ein groĂes StĂŒck Literatur. Distinctions
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HTML:Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His charactersâ??men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deceptionâ??are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. A young boy's fascination with an eerily erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family's secrets. The friendship between a West Berliner and an idealistic young couple from the East founders amid the prosperity and revelations that follow the collapse of communism. An acrobatic philanderer (one wife and two mistresses, all apparently quite happy) begins to crack under the weight of his abundance. By turns brooding and comic, and filled with the suspense that comes from the inexorable unfolding of character, Flights of Love is nothing less than mast No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)833.914Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1945-1990LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Girl with Lizard; A Little Fling; The Other Man; Sugar Peas; The Circumcision; The Son; The Woman at the Gas Station.
All seven of these stories are about German men. The first is about a young man discovering his parent's past through searching the history of a painting that hung in his father's study.
Relationships between a West Berlin man and an East Berlin couple before and after the Fall of the Wall are examined in A Little Fling, a story of betrayal.
The Other Man and Sugar Peas both deal with infidelity. In the first it is a wife's affair (discovered by the husband after her death); in the second a husband's affairs overwhelm him. Both are stories of sly revenge with strange, sometimes questionable, twists and turnings. These two are lighter in mood than the other stories in the collection.
In The Circumcision a German man studying in New York falls in love with a Jewish American. This is the post war generation--his father served in the Germany military in World War II; her aunt and uncle survived the concentration camps. The relationship is somewhere between walking on eggs and zig-zagging through a minefield as the two try to understand their prejudices, family histories, and apprehensions about their future together.
The Son takes place in an unidentified Latin American country where a German is part of an international election observation team. When the team is stranded overnight, the German man meditates on his life's shortcomings and his failed relationship with his son. The Woman at the Gas Station is the story of a long time marriage that is trying to rejuvenate itself. The men in both of these stories are world weary.
Schlink is a skilled storyteller. His characters are well developed and interesting. A thoroughly enjoyable read. ( )