Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses [Love in a Time of Hate]
2021
S. Fischer Verlage
About the Book:
English title: Love in a Time of Hate
ISBN: 978-3-10-397073-9
432 pages
- SPIEGEL Bestseller: more than 160,000 copies sold
- Rights sold to: UK (Profile) | CZ (Host) | DK (Gutekind) | F (Flammarion) | FIN (Athena) | HU (PARK Könyvkiadó) | I (Marsilio) | BR (Companhia das Letras) | NL (Atlas Contact) | RUS (Ad Marginem) | Spanish World (Salamandra) | KR (Munhakdongne) | RO (Polirom) | S (Northtstedts) | NOR (Cappelen Damm) | HR (Fraktura)
- Florian Illies’ first masterpiece, "1913 - The Year Before the Storm", sold over one million copies worldwide, rights sold to PRC | GR | EST | IT | LVA | PL | TR | SRB | LT | F | HU | TW | JP | BR | DK | RUS | RO | UK | NO | ES | KR | CZ | SE | NL
– Sample translation available
A spectacular new account of the 1930s through the eyes of the greatest lovers of the time
While Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir eat cheesecake at the Kranzler Eck café in Berlin, Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin enjoy wild nights in Paris, and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway throw themselves headlong into passionate affairs in New York. Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel flee into exile, and so do Thomas and Katia Mann. All of this happens as the Nazis are seizing power in Germany, burning books and ramping up their persecution of the Jews.
In 1933 the Roaring Twenties come to a screeching halt. Florian Illies takes us back to an age of unprecedented political disaster and portrays some of the greatest lovers in recent history. In Berlin,
Paris and Ticino and on the French Riviera, the great heroes of the age do all they can to ward off the impending collapse of culture itself. Love in a Time of Hate is an enthralling journey into the past that reads like a commentary on our own uncertain times.
“Please read this book. It is utterly captivating. I learned so many things about love, art and horror.” Ferdinand von Schirach
"Illies' special trick [...] is, with the focus on love, sex and passion in the supposedly highly personal, to capture the political aspects of an era." Peter von Becker - Der Tagesspiegel
"Illies achieves the feat of creating a maelstrom and becoming addictive himself." Jörg Magenau - RBB, Kulturradio
About the author:
Florian Illies brings periods from the past to life with elegance and dexterity, making surprising connections between protagonists and forging scenes and snapshots into sweeping panoramas. His international hit 1913. The Year Before the Storm established a new genre and topped the SPIEGEL's German bestseller list for months. Illies was born in 1971 and studied art history in Bonn and Oxford. He was culture editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Die Zeit, a publisher with Rowohlt, head of the Grisebach auction house and also co-founded the art magazine Monopol. He lives in Berlin.
For further information please feel free to contact:
Verena von Bassewitz & Martin Butz
S. Fischer Verlage
Hedderichstr. 114 - 60596 Frankfurt am Main
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