Love in Five Acts

Daniela Krien

Love in Five Acts
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 April 2022
Pages
256
ISBN
9781529406405

Love in Five Acts

Daniela Krien

Highly recommended Sunday Times

Utterly captivating Woman and Home

Sympathetic and clear-eyed Financial Times Summer Reads of 2021

Unfailingly impressive Irish Times

Sparse and precise Telegraph

A beautiful novel of what it is to be a women in modern Europe New European

An intelligent study of female desire, ambition and frailty Observer

Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn’t stop her looking for love online. Brida is a writer with no time to write, until she faces a choice between her work and her family. Abandoned by the perfect man, Malika struggles for recognition from her parents. Her sister Jorinde, an actor, is pregnant for a third time, but how can she provide for her family alone?

Love in Five Acts explores what is left to five women when they have fulfilled their roles as wives, mothers, friends, lovers, sisters and daughters. As teenagers they experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall, but freedom brings with it another form of pressure: the pressure of choice.

Punchy and entirely of the moment, Love in Five Acts engages head-on with what it is to be a woman in the twenty-first century.

Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

This item is in-stock at 2 shops and will ship in 3-4 days

Our stock data is updated periodically, and availability may change throughout the day for in-demand items. Please call the relevant shop for the most current stock information. Prices are subject to change without notice.

Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to a wishlist.