The Empire of the Senses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804173469)

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

The Empire of the Senses is an enthralling tale of love and war, duty and self-discovery. It begins in 1914 when Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated German Jew fighting in World War I, finds unexpected companionship on the Eastern Front; back at home, his wife Josephine embarks on a clandestine affair of her own. A decade later, during the heady, politically charged interwar years in Berlin, their children--one, a nascent Fascist struggling with his sexuality, the other a young woman entranced by the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age--experience their own romantic awakenings. With a painter's sensibility for the layered images that comprise our lives, this exquisite novel by Alexis Landau marks the emergence of a writer uniquely talented in bringing the past to the present.

Author: Alexis Landau
ISBN-10: 080417346X
ISBN-13: 9780804173469
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2016
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.40d