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Flights of Love
Bernhard Schlink
其他書名
Stories
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2002-11-12
主題
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0375725555
9780375725555
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mSSNEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made
The Reader
an international bestseller.
His characters–men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception–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 masterful