This a story about decisions, and the difficulty making them, as Hitler's power spreads across Europe. It is told through linked diaries, letters, interviews and poems, which portrary the three main characters as they pursue their own love story to its end. Across their obsessions, the figure of Walter Benjamin, first in Paris, then at the Spanish border, adds a poignant dimension to their hopes and fears.
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In the late 1930s two German intellectuals watch themselves and their marriage degenerate for both political and personal reasons. "Laurels for British author Feinstein, who cuts cleanly and swiftly to the bone of human relationships in this short, energetic novel," commended PW.
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