There can be few readers who have not heard of The Reader. It was a huge critical success and bestseller in Germany and around the world, and it made Bernhard Schlink famous, not just as a writer but as a German writing about the Holocaust.
What could he possibly write after that? This book is his answer: seven stories, as the dust-jacket says, 'weaving around the idea of love'.
Could they be as profound, as disturbing? German critics thought so, when Liebesfluchten came out in 2000; and now the Americans seem to agree. But Flights of Love has had a poor reception in England. That is intriguing, and I wondered why.
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