Love Writ Large
Navid Kermani author Alexander Booth translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
Published:2nd Jul '19
£18.99
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Now in paperback, a story of teenage love in Cold War-era Germany.
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.
ISBN: 9780857426024
Dimensions: 21mm x 14mm x 2mm
Weight: 340g
212 pages