Love's Escape

About This Novel

"The Escape of Love" is a collection of short stories by Bernhard Schlink, an important writer, novelist and best-selling author in the contemporary German literary world. It contains seven short stories. The seven independent stories told have a common theme - the secret behind love. The story tells the story of a man who has been attracted to a mysterious painting collected by his father since he was a child. When he grew up, he finally learned that the secret behind the painting was his father's controversial identity in the war. Story Two tells the story of an awkward friendship between a man from West Berlin and an East Berlin couple. The third story is about a man who discovers after the death of his wife that under the harmonious marriage for many years, his wife was having an affair with another man, and he begins to track this man. Story 4 tells the story of a successful architect who deals with three women, but encounters a bizarre incident. Story 5 tells the story of a German student whose father had experienced the war and fell in love with a Jewish-American girl. They were repeatedly troubled by differences in beliefs and the shadow of history. Story 6 tells the story of an armistice observer who once again embarked on a dangerous journey. He began to doubt his role as a peace messenger and felt guilty that he had not fulfilled his responsibilities as a father. Story 7 tells the story of a German man over fifty whose relationship with his wife has gradually become colder. He decides to travel to the United States together as a silver wedding anniversary to bring the two closer together, but he hesitates along the way. How love happens and how it ends, the emergence and resolution of misunderstandings, the unfolding of deception and the revelation of the truth, and the various twists and turns in these processes, are what the male protagonists of the seven stories have experienced, and they face more sober and brave women.

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