Love by the Tiber

Author: Yannic Knoche
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Selected work for the "Best Foreign Novel of the 21st Century" award in 2004. In 1968, Verlaine came to Rome to teach with a dream of Italy. His service in the Nazi German Air Force brought him many troubles, while he immersed himself in the fervent collection of artifacts. His wife Elinor, confused and restless, embarked on a journey to find herself in this unfamiliar city, falling in love with the enthusiastic "revolutionary" student Luca. Their son—"I"—experienced his first naive love, the turmoil of adolescence, and the absurdities of growing up by the Tiber River. In this family and love tragedy-comedy, the author also portrays the diverse social life of Germany and Italy after World War II.