Flights of Love
Author | : Bernhard Schlink |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781780221441 |
ISBN-13 | : 1780221444 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER. 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.