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Summer Lies Prof Bernhard Schlink

Summer Lies By Prof Bernhard Schlink

Summer Lies by Prof Bernhard Schlink


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The new FLIGHTS OF LOVE

Summer Lies Summary

Summer Lies by Prof Bernhard Schlink

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.

Summer Lies Reviews

With his mournful, meditative new collection of stories, translated, like 'The Reader', by Carol Brown Janeway, Mr Schlink comes closer than ever to putting the war behind him... Each story in 'Summer Lies' has heft, solidity - even more of an accomplishment given the delicate, fleeting emotions it captures INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE Unlike many novelists who use short fiction as a rest stop on the highway to longer works, Schlink seems to have lingered with these stories. Each story in Summer Lies has heft, solidity - even more of an accomplishment given the delicate, fleeting emotions it captures THE SCOTSMAN Summer Lies is pleasingly dark in its reflections on disappointment and sorrow in adult life... Admirers of The Reader will not be disappointed FINANCIAL TIMES For all the hideous history behind it, his global bestseller The Reader shared with the rest of Bernhard Schlink's fiction a keen but cool grasp of the role of chance and happenstance in every human life... these stories by the lawyer, judge and writer show how fate - or drift, or accident - can change the course of even the most controlled career -- Boyd Tonkin THE INDEPENDENT These quiet but memorable stories by the author of The Reader hinge on those moments when whole lives may - or may not - change. At turning-points, his characters either pursue a new path or flee from the unknown. But even for these orderly, thoughtful post-war Germans, chance often reigns and fate will mock their choice i newspaper

About Prof Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany is 1944. A professor of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Cardozo Law School, New York, he is the author of the major international bestselling novel and film THE READER, short story collection FLIGHTS OF LOVE and several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Berlin and New York.

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GOR004401207
9780297867005
0297867008
Summer Lies by Prof Bernhard Schlink
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
20120913
240
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