Emily Atef’s latest feature is something of a curate’s egg, a well-made foray into high-end romantic lit that’s saddled with some off-putting baggage about the reunification of Germany post-1989. T…
competition entry is clearly personal to the novel’s writer, Daniela Krien, who was born, mid-’70s into the former GDR, and it does offer a layer of quirky detail, such as an unnerving car crash involving what looks to be Trabant.
Though she’s far from a country person, Maria isn’t exactly itching to leave, and where the plot takes her next is subtly foreshadowed by a snippet of conversation about the nearest neighbor, Henner , and his legendary libido. Their subsequent meeting is the stuff of bodice-rippers: terrified into silence by Henner’s two snarling guard dogs, Maria allows him to invade her personal space with an intensity that nowadays might be considered indecent assault.
The scene, by itself, drips with youthful idealism and a sense of freedom that somehow never develops much further. Counter to the mouthful of a title, there’s not much to tell beyond a handsome if not exactly plausible cautionary tale about the perils of mistaking lust for love and falling for the nearest bit of rough.
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