An Exclusive Love
A Memoir
$26.40
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2010
Summary
She is a healthy seventy-one-year-old woman. He is a dying eighty-two-year-old man. This couple, who have been united through the horrors of twentieth-century Europe, and through the joys of love and family, cannot live up to the vows they made nearly fifty years ago to stay together ‘until death do us part’: they will die as one, never to be parted. On 13 October 1991 they take their own lives, together.
Sixteen years later, their granddaughter Johanna Adorján digs through her family…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921656569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921656565 |
| Author: | Anthea Bell, Johanna Adorján |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 152mm |
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I was very much moved by An Exclusive Love—such clarity of thought and feeling. What I think of Anthea Bell as a translator is little short of reverence, after what she did for W. G. Sebald: one trusts her absolutely, so I know for sure that Johanna Adorján writes with beautiful precision and suppleness. It’s a truly memorable book. – Diana Athill, best-selling author of, Somewhere Towards the End‘In imagining what her grandparents’ feelings and actions might have been on their last day, Adorjan hits upon a powerful dramatic structure that builds from the quotidian to the shocking…Sensitive, intelligent and profoundly moving, An Exclusive Love will leave you stunned.’ * NPR *
About The Author
Anthea Bell
Johanna Adorján is the author of several dramatic works, including a screenplay filmed by Ed Herzog. Currently, she is an editor of the culture section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and lives in Berlin. An Exclusive Love is her first book.
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