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Genre/Form: | novels Novels Fiction Bildungsromans Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Ebook version : |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Navid Kermani; Alexander Booth |
ISBN: | 0857426028 9780857426024 |
OCLC Number: | 1051682987 |
Language Note: | Translated to English from the German. |
Description: | 233 pages ; 21 cm |
Series Title: | German list. |
Other Titles: | Grosse Liebe. |
Responsibility: | Navid Kermani ; translated by Alexander Booth. |
Abstract:
"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 a 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 a tale that reflects on the multiple ways love, loss, and risk weigh on our everyday lives."--Amazon.com
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