Love writ large /
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Author / Creator: | Kermani, Navid, 1967- author. |
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Uniform title: | Grosse Liebe. English |
Imprint: | London : Seagull Books, 2019 |
Description: | 233 pages ; 21 cm |
Language: | English |
Series: | The German list |
Subject: | First loves -- Fiction. Teenagers -- Fiction. Romance fiction, German -- 21st century. Germany -- Fiction. Bildungsromans. Novels. Bildungsromans. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11939963 |
Summary: | Now in paperback, a story of teenage love in Cold War-era Germany. <br> <br> 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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Physical Description: | 233 pages ; 21 cm |
ISBN: | 0857426028 9780857426024 9780857426246 |