The friendship between lofe West Berliner and an idealistic young couple from the East founders amid the prosperity and revelations that follow the collapse of communism. His characters-men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception-are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. Dec 18, Pages.īernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. Flights of Love Bernhard Schlink, trans John E Woods pp, Weidenfeld, £ Beneath Black Stars: Contemporary Austrian Fiction.ĭec 18, Pages Buy. THE characters in ”Flights of Love,” Bernhard Schlink’s first collection of stories, are not the kind of men you expect to be defined by love, much. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships. A mesmeric collection of stories about love.
