Love Writ Large

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.

About the author

Navid Kermani is an award-winning writer living in Cologne. Alexander Booth is a writer and translator living in Berlin.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Booth, Navid Kermani
• Assisted by: Alexander Booth (Translation)
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2022
• EAN: 9781803090061
• ISBN: 978-1-80309-006-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 264 g
• Series: The German List
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature