Flights of Love Stories

Name: Flights of Love Stories
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ISBN: 9780375725555

ISBN-10: 0375725555

ISBN-13: 9780375725555

Edition: N/A

Authors: Bernhard Schlink

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Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters–men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception–are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. A young boy’s fascination with an eerily erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family’s secrets. The friendship between a West Berliner and an idealistic young couple from the East founders amid the prosperity and revelations that follow the collapse of communism. An acrobatic philanderer (one wife and two mistresses, all apparently quite happy) begins…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. He is a professor of law at the University of Berlin and a judge. He is the author of the major international best-selling novel The Reader as well as several prize-winning detective novels that are now being translated into English. He lives in Bonn and Berlin, Germany.



Girl with Lizard


A Little Fling


The Other Man


Sugar Peas


The Circumcision


The Son


The Woman at the Gas Station