Discussion
Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien
Online Book Launch
"Love in Five Acts" by Daniela Krien
Author Daniela Krien and her translator Jamie Bulloch will join a discussion with Sarah Hemens from New Books in German, to mark the recent publication of the English translation of Die Liebe im Ernstfall (Love in Five Acts). To register for the event, click on 'REGISTER HERE' to receive the link which will enable you to watch the discussion online via 'zoom'.
Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn’t stop her looking for love online. Brida is a writer with no time to write, until she faces a choice between her work and her family. Abandoned by the “perfect” man, Malika struggles for recognition from her parents. Her sister Jorinde, an actor, is pregnant for a third time, but how can she provide for her family alone?
Love in Five Acts explores what is left to five women when they have fulfilled their roles as wives, mothers, friends, lovers, sisters and daughters. As teenagers they experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall, but freedom brings with it another form of pressure: the pressure of choice.
Punchy and entirely of the moment, Love in Five Acts engages head-on with what it is to be a woman in the twenty-first century.
Daniela Krien was born in 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, then in the GDR. Her first novel, Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything, was published in English in 2013 (MacLehose Press) and in fourteen other languages. For a subsequent volume of short stories, Muldental, she was awarded the Nicolaus Born Prize. Love in Five Acts has been sold for translation into twenty languages. Daniela lives in Leipzig with her two daughters.
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