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Now in paperback, a story of teenage love in Cold War-era Germany.For a fifteen-year-old, falling in love can eclipse everything else in the world, and make a few short weeks feel like a lifetime of experience. In Love Writ Large , Navid Kermani captures those intense feelings, from the emotional explosion of a first kiss to the staggering loss of a first breakup. As his teenage protagonist is wrapped up in these all-consuming feelings, however, Germany is in the crosshairs of the Cold War—and even the personal dramas of a small-town grammar school are shadowed by the threat of the nuclear arms race. Kermani’s novel manages to capture these social tensions without sacrificing any of the all-consuming passion of first love and, in a unique touch, sets the boy’s struggles within the larger frame of the stories and lives of numerous Arabic and Persian mystics. His becomes a timeless tale that reflects on the multiple ways love, loss, and risk weigh on our everyday lives.
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Love Writ Large, Navid Kermani
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Love Writ Large
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Navid Kermani
- Verlag
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 212
- ISBN13
- 9781803090061
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Romantik, Liebe, Deutsche Literatur, Politik, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Deutschland, Schule, Jugend, Mystik, Erste Liebe, Leiden, Jugendliebe
- Bewertung
- 3,45 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Now in paperback, a story of teenage love in Cold War-era Germany.For a fifteen-year-old, falling in love can eclipse everything else in the world, and make a few short weeks feel like a lifetime of experience. In Love Writ Large , Navid Kermani captures those intense feelings, from the emotional explosion of a first kiss to the staggering loss of a first breakup. As his teenage protagonist is wrapped up in these all-consuming feelings, however, Germany is in the crosshairs of the Cold War—and even the personal dramas of a small-town grammar school are shadowed by the threat of the nuclear arms race. Kermani’s novel manages to capture these social tensions without sacrificing any of the all-consuming passion of first love and, in a unique touch, sets the boy’s struggles within the larger frame of the stories and lives of numerous Arabic and Persian mystics. His becomes a timeless tale that reflects on the multiple ways love, loss, and risk weigh on our everyday lives.