Instead, what we get is a careful, nuanced look at the issues and choices facing women in a modern, developed society. With the five main characters searching for love and popping up in each other’s stories, it might all sound like a poor German spin-off of Sex and the City, but that’s definitely not the case. Each piece, running for forty to fifty pages, focuses on a woman in her forties, usually seeing them at a turning point in their life, and Krien builds the story through setting the woman’s current issues against scenes from her past. Luckily, then, we’re not constrained to one character – we’re off to Germany to catch up with five women looking for love, and a lot more besides □ĭaniela Krien’s Love in Five Acts (translated by Jamie Bulloch, review copy courtesy of MacLehose Press) is a set of five interconnected long stories set in the German city of Leipzig, part of the old East Germany before the wall fell. We’ll be examining what it means to be a woman in the modern world, and as you can imagine, that means there’s a lot to discuss. While the first of this week’s non-Booker posts featured a man in a bygone era, today’s takes us in a very different direction.
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