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Iris Wolff, “Openings” (2024)
The card comes from Zurich and has a single sentence on it: “When are you coming?” Written by Kato and taken by Lev. There has been a bond between the two since childhood. However, after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, Kato leaves Romania and heads west, while Lev follows the traces of his childhood in his old hometown. A poetic novel by German writer Iris Wolff (46) about long, tender bonds of love.
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Alex Capus, “Léon and Louise” (2011)
Léon and Louise meet in Normandy and fall in love. In 1918 they spent a weekend in the seaside town of Le Tréport and were caught in an air raid on their way back. Those who are separated from each other with serious injuries think that the other is dead; until we met again ten years later in Paris. But Léon has a family now. But this does not prevent love. A wonderful ménage à trois from Swiss writer Alex Capus (62).
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Alice Munro, “The Bear Climbs the Mountains” (1999)
Fiona and Grant have been married for 50 years; He lives in a nursing home due to dementia. When Grant visits her there, she turns to another man – until his wife takes him home due to lack of money. Grant now wants to bring back his “rival”. About the short story of Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro (92), “FAZ” wrote, “Someone who bursts into tears at the end of this story while a broad smile shines on his face cannot be a bad person.”
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Cengiz Aytmatov, “Jamile” (1958)
While Djamila was working in the fields of Kyrgyzstan during World War II, her husband was fighting at the front. During the daily grain haul to the train station, he meets the war-disabled Danijar. One day, when he starts singing, Djamila falls in love with him. They leave the village to live together. “I swear, this is the most beautiful love story in the world,” Louis Aragon (1897–1982) wrote about this short novel by Cengiz Aytmatov (1928–2008).
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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Above “Wuthering Heights”, the windswept manor of the Earnshaw family, below “Thrushcross Grange”, the feudal manor of the Linton family: this rag of despair, filled with desire, rejection and revenge, by English writer Emily Brontë (1818–1848) continues for three generations – until finally there is no obstacle to the love between the two houses and Catherine and Linton find each other.
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Murasaki Shikibu, “The Tale of Prince Genji” (1001)
Genji is the late-born son of an aging Japanese emperor. The prince devotes his time to fine arts and the opposite sex – he has many affairs. Among other things, with Murasaki, the niece of a maid he admires. After Murasaki’s death, Genj loses his will to live. Japanese author Murasaki Shikibu (973–1014 or 1025) was herself a servant and created what was probably the first romance novel with “Genji Monogatari.”
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Old Testament, “Song of Solomon” (300 BC)
Not everything is sacred in the Bible – in the “Song of Songs” one sometimes gets angry: “Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth; yes, your love is more delicious than wine.” Men and women express their love for each other with enthusiastic and erotic words. “Two breasts are like two fawns feeding among the water lilies, twin gazelles.” The author was long thought to be the legendary King Solomon, who was said to have married 700 women and had 300 lovers.
Source : Blick
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