Nina + Tom - Softcover

Kummer, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947856928 ISBN 13: 9781947856929

Publisher: Rare Bird Books, 2019

Synopsis

Tom loves Nina.
Nina loves Tom.
She only has a few days left to live.

The biggest love story since Love Story.

Barcelona, 1983: Tom has never seen anyone like Nina. She looks like a thirteen-year-old boy and has the stare of a hardened gangster. She's stubborn, bitchy and self-confident. She's also aimless, and much more sensitive than she wants to admit. He falls in love with her at first sight, and doesn't budge from her side until she takes pity on him and they drive from Barcelona to snowy Berlin in an old Mercedes. There they live in an unheated factory, experimenting with pop, drugs, and sex. By now Tom works as an international reporter, while Nina stands in front of the mirror and chain-smokes. Then the Berlin Wall comes down and the restless couple move on to LA, among the rich and the beautiful. Years later they have two sons and find out that cancer is ravaging Nina's body.

Tom Kummer, the "Bad Boy" of German journalism, has written a memorial to the woman he loved and lost: a thoroughly shattering book.

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Review

"Nina and Tom is the most tender, beautiful, painful, ruthless love story I've read in years."
--World Week

"Heartbreaking."
--Neue Zürcher Zeitung"Because he charges into the flames with open eyes, you find yourself entirely spellbound by his declaration of love. There's no question about it--the truth Kummer writes is not only his truth."
--Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Whatever you think of him as a journalist--as a novelist, he belongs to an avant-garde that aims a kick at the establishment and catapults it, more or less at will, in unsettling directions."
--Focus"Tom Kummer has written a novel. An intense novel. You won't want to put it down once you've started, although--or precisely because--you know how it ends. It's a tragic story, but even then only in part."
--Spiegel Online 

"It's the story of a life, a love, a very slow death. . . . This is powerful literature."
--Basler Zeitung 

"The novel Nina & Tom will make you laugh and cry."
--STERN

"Nina & Tom is the most tender, beautiful, painful, unsparing love story that I've read in years."
--Die Weltwoche

About the Author

Tom Kummer, born in Bern in 1961, is a Swiss journalist. In 2000 his fictional interviews provoked a media scandal. He lives in Los Angeles and Bern.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rare Bird Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1947856928
• ISBN 13: 9781947856929
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256