LOVE WRIT LARGE Translated by Alexander Booth
Language: English Publication details: London Seagull 2019/01/01Edition: 1Description: 233ISBN:- 9780857426024
- F KER/LO
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Ernakulam Public Library Fiction | Fiction | F KER/LO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 2022-11-16 | E194655 |
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.
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