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Love in Five Acts Daniela Krien

Love in Five Acts By Daniela Krien

Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien

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Summary

Five women attempt the impossible - to love, to be strong, and to stay true to themselves - for readers of Conversations with Friends and An American Marriage

Love in Five Acts Summary

Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien

Utterly captivating Woman and Home

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

Love in Five Acts Reviews

Krien excels in the detail on which a life turns and she uses understated humour to great effect...Krien is unfailingly impressive in her depiction of the lives of these five very different women. -- Michael Cronin * Irish Times *
Love in Five Acts is written - and translated - sparsely, five disparate voices cramming a world of nuance into a rare and elegant conciseness. -- Charlie Connelly * New European *
This exquisite portrait of five middle-class women's lives is utterly captivating . . . A beautifully written masterclass in human frailty. * Woman and Home *
Krien has produced a sensitive, intricate study of the connected stories of her characters. * Library Journal (USA) *
Nothing in this life is for free. And this is why this book entertains and is food for thought, with remarkable women in their thirties and forties * Berliner Zeitung *
The polyphony and the way in which every single voice is being led midway between the protagonist and the narrator constitute the special quality of this book * Suddeutsche Zeitung *
Maybe that is the artistry, the literary concept of Daniela Krien, the familiar truthfulness of her characters, their touching intimacy * Stern *
With psychological refinement Daniela Krien recounts the chaos of feelings and the short half-life of modern ways of living * Vogue (Germany) *
She is a good listener, [...] Maybe this is why her novel Love in Five Acts is so entertaining * Sueddeutsche Zeitung *
Krien expertly connects fortunes that only seem simple at first glance to create an altogether excellent book * Brigitte *
Daniela Krien is an impressive storyteller for emergency case called love, which silences many of us. Daniela Krien gives them a strong voice * Hamburger Morgenpost *
Few intelligently entertaining German novels don't ooze relevance yet are not afraid of existential seriousness. Fortunately, Krien has written one * Neue Zurcher Zeitung *
It's the book of the summer * Stuttgarter Zeitung *
Written in unsentimental, affecting prose, this is an intelligent study of female desire, ambition and frailty. -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer *
Krien's writing (translated, excellently, by Jamie Bulloch) is sparse and precise. It hops about in time, but chronological confusion fades in teh face of the self-contained intensity of the chapters. -- Francesca Carrington * Telegraph *
Fans of Sarah Dunn, Elisabeth Egan, and Isabel Gillies will relate to the multifaceted lives of Krien's characters, brilliantly rendered in her vivid voice. * Booklist *

About Daniela Krien

Daniela Krien was born in 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, then in the G.D.R. Her first novel, Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything, was published in English in 2013 (MacLehose Press) and in fourteen other languages. For a subsequent volume of short stories, Muldental, she was awarded the Nicolaus Born Prize. Love in Five Acts has been sold for translation into twenty languages. She lives in Leipzig with her two daughters.

Additional information

GOR013465725
9781529406382
1529406382
Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien
Daniela Krien
Used - Like New
Hardback
Quercus Publishing
20210429
288
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