Bernhard Schlink
Sommerlügen

English Title: Summer Lies

The day she stopped loving her children ... So begins the story of a woman who realises that what gave her life meaning no longer does. She goes in search of, and finds the man she loved as a student and who loved her in return. Did she make the wrong decision back then? A son wants to know at long last who his father is and go on a journey with him. A man with an incurable illness arranges a summer with his family to take leave of life while it is still beautiful. A man on a plane hears the confession of his fellow passenger’s life – or is it all a pack of lies? Why does a young man and father try to keep his successful wife hidden from the world? What compels a lover to keep lying to the woman he loves only to lose her- and himself in his own lies? And how do you loosen the ropes that attach you to your old life when late-flowering love holds out the promise of a new life? A gentle revealing of the lies by which we live is at the crux of these unerringly clear, beautiful short stories laced with melancholy. »Summer Lies« is sold to: Gallimard (France) Anagrama (Spain) Cossee (the Netherlands) Ili-Ili (Macedonia) Kritiki (Greece) Shanghai Translation (China) Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir (Israel) Plato Books (Serbia) Dogan Egmont (Turkey) Crown (Taiwan) Polirom (Romania) Shinchosha (Japan) Muza (Poland) Azbooka-Atticus (Russia) Sextante/Porto (Portugal) Record (Brazil) Sigongsa (Korea) Pantheon (USA/UK)

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