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Summer Lies [Hardcover]

Prof Bernhard Schlink (Author)
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Publication Date: 13 Sep 2012

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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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: W&N (13 Sep 2012)
  • Language: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 0297867008
  • ISBN-13: 978-0297867005
  • Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 2.4 x 20.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 147,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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 )

For all the hideous history behind it, his global bestseller The Reader shared with the rest of Bernhard Schlink's fiction a keen but cool grasp of the role of chance and happenstance in every human life... these stories by the lawyer, judge and writer show how fate - or drift, or accident - can change the course of even the most controlled career (Boyd Tonkin THE INDEPENDENT )

These quiet but memorable stories by the author of The Reader hinge on those moments when whole lives may - or may not - change. At turning-points, his characters either pursue a new path or flee from the unknown. But even for these orderly, thoughtful post-war Germans, chance often reigns and fate will mock their choice (i newspaper )

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From the bestselling author of THE READER, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An Intriguing and Stimulating Collection 17 Oct 2012
By Susie B TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
Author of the bestselling 'The Reader', Bernhard Schlink's latest fictional offering is a collection of seven skilfully composed stories about love, about lies and about the games people play.

In the first story: 'After the Season' we meet Richard, a flautist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, who is on holiday at an expensive resort, which is only affordable for him because he visits it off-season. There he meets Susan, whom he assumes is in a similar financial position, and the two fall quickly in love and plan to spend their future together. However, when Richard discovers that Susan is financially independent and has a life-style that is miles away from his gritty, down-to-earth existence in his rented Manhattan apartment, he wonders whether they are really suited. Can love conquer all - or is Richard better suited to his financially poor but spiritually rich Manhattan life? And if so, is he brave enough to be honest about it?

In 'The Night in Baden-Baden' an emotionally immature man continually lies to his girlfriend - not because he wants to lie (as he tells himself) but because he needs to protect both his girlfriend and himself from difficult, emotional confrontations. When he hides a significant truth beneath yet another seemingly palatable lie, he risks losing what is really important to him. The most intriguing and enjoyable story of the collection is 'Stranger in the Night' where our protagonist listens to a rather fantastic story, regaled to him by the man in the seat next to him on a plane, about his girlfriend's kidnapping in Kuwait. As the stranger continues with his colourful tale, the plane hits some turbulence, which only serves to disorientate our main character further as he is amazed by the man's wild and hardly credible story. But why is the stranger revealing his personal experiences and what does he want from our protagonist?

Interesting and stimulating, tender yet unsentimental, 'Summer Lies' is an intriguing collection of tales where the author's compelling and beautifully written narratives about love, coping with love, and the lies we tell to ourselves and to others, makes for entertaining reading.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Extreme Disappointment 8 Nov 2012
By James Marshall
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
It is difficult to believe that this is the same author who wrote the excellent "The Reader", an oustanding piece of modern fiction.This collection of short stories features a gallery of effete men who seem to be more of a list of case studies from a US psychiatrist than anything from real life . The flautist in the "reverse engineered" Great Gatsby story, the writer who betrays his girl friend with a nonsexual relationship then finds an amenable waitress in Provence are cartoon characters which made me laugh so much that I skipped through most of the remaining tales. Even the girl kidnapped by a rich Arab is a complete farce.
It is some consolation that I took the Kindle version so there is no waste paper or book that needs to be flung away with great force, just a simple press of a button.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece 17 Oct 2012
By benjake
Format:Hardcover
A terrific short story collection;insightful,poignant,evocative and yet gripping.Stories that will trigger recollections and that will stay with you.To be read again and again.
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