The Empire of the Senses

A Novel

von Alexis Landau

498 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearThe Empire of the Senses is an enthralling tale of love and war, duty and self-discovery. It begins in 1914 when Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated German Jew fighting in World War I, finds unexpected companionship on the Eastern Front; back at home, his wife Josephine embarks on a clandestine affair of her own. A decade later, during the heady, politically charged interwar years in Berlin, their children—one, a nascent Fascist struggling with his sexuality, the other a young woman entranced by the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age—experience their own romantic awakenings. With a painter’s sensibility for the layered images that comprise our lives, this exquisite novel by Alexis Landau marks the emergence of a writer uniquely talented in bringing the past to the present.

• Reihe: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• ISBN: 9780804173469
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2016
• Größe: 203 x 128 mm
• Verlag: Random House