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Synopsis
A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; holiday lovers will struggle in the harsh reality of daily routine...
As Schlink's characters navigate their lives, we discover the many faces of love: the small betrayals, hidden truths and abiding affections. In Schlink's trademark spare prose, we come face-to-face with the desires and jealousies that define our daily lives, with the fragility of happiness, and with the abiding possibility of hope.
Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, SUMMER LIES asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be human.
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Review
Summer Lies is pleasingly dark in its reflections on disappointment and sorrow in adult life ... Admirers of The Reader will not be dissappointed (Financial Times)
Unlike many novelists who use short fiction as a rest stop on the highway to longer works, Schlink seems to have lingered with these stories. Each story in Summer Lies has heft, solidty (Scotsman)
With his mournful, meditative new collection of stories, translated, like The Reader, by Carol Brown Janeway, Mr Schlink comes closer than ever to putting the war behind him (International Herald Tribune)
The Reader is a fine novel ... A sensitive, daring, deeply moving book about the tragic results of fear and the redemptive power of understanding (Ruth Rendall on The Reader)
Crammed with incident and analysis, and yet Schlink finds room for virtuoso passages of evocation ... compelling (London Review of Books on The Reader)
Extraordinary depth and worldwide critical acclaim (Guardian on The Weekend)
A succinct fascinating insight into Germany's ongoing examination of its troubled past (Daily Express on The Reader)
With his mournful, meditative new collection of stories, translated, like 'The Reader', by Carol Brown Janeway, Mr Schlink comes closer than ever to putting the war behind him... Each story in 'Summer Lies' has heft, solidity - even more of an accomplishment given the delicate, fleeting emotions it captures (INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE)
Unlike many novelists who use short fiction as a rest stop on the highway to longer works, Schlink seems to have lingered with these stories. Each story in Summer Lies has heft, solidity - even more of an accomplishment given the delicate, fleeting emotions it captures (THE SCOTSMAN)
Summer Lies is pleasingly dark in its reflections on disappointment and sorrow in adult life... Admirers of The Reader will not be disappointed (FINANCIAL TIMES)
Book Description
From the bestselling author of THE READER, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises.
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- PublisherW&N
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0297867008
- ISBN 13 9780297867005
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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