A collection of stories about the many facets of love
Love strikes us all – and it usually isn’t a walk in the park, especially as the years go by. Frank Schulz follows his protagonists like a private detective, holding their souls under a magnifying glass – but never recoiling from what he finds.
A junior-senior (just 60) surrenders to a game of verbal ping-pong via text message with his young girlfriend that is so evenly nasty that we’re completely charmed: this must be true love after all! A man and a woman write each other letters, which the respective recipient may only open 20 years later. In general: getting older is decidedly not a peaceful matter. When, for example, your eyes and memory have gone just enough that, like the entrepreneur’s widow, you aren’t completely sure whether your husband fell into the ravine while hiking – or whether you yourself gave him a little push.
A wonderful collection of stories about the weaknesses of being in love, the cowardice of ego, the brutal outgrowths of loneliness and the heartrending moments of truth.
