Love's cowardice

Author: Gennachino
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Love's Timidity is the selected work of German literature for the "Best Foreign Novel of the 21st Century" award in 2005. The protagonist is a fifty-two-year-old expert in end-times prophecy. He is in love with two women at the same time and alternates between joy and sorrow in this situation. He is unable to give up either of them and unwilling to enter into marriage with either, fearing the loss of his freedom. He observes the world outside and his own body, half-seriously and half-self-deprecatingly contemplating his life. The work meticulously portrays the living state of a man who has passed middle age.