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.
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