Love writ large / Navid Kermani ; translated by Alexander Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kermani, Navid, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Booth, Alexander, translator.

Series:

German list

The German list

Standardized Title:

Grosse Liebe. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

First loves--Fiction.

First loves.

Romance fiction, German.

Teenagers--Fiction.

Teenagers.

Romance fiction, German--21st century.

Germany--Fiction.

Germany.

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2019.

Summary:

"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.

"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.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0857426028

9780857426024

OCLC:

1051682987