《paper kisses》是2006年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Reinhard Kaiser。
基本介紹
- 中文名：paper kisses
- 作者：Reinhard Kaiser
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9781590511817
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
A fascinating piece of literary detective work aboutstar-crossed lovers in Nazi Germany.Rudolf Kaufmann, a young Jewish geologist, met IngeborgMagnusson, a young Swedish woman gifted in languages, in Italy in1935, and the two quickly fell in love. They spent just a few daystogether before they had to part. He traveled once to see her inStockholm; she went once to Germany. After that they had to make dowith an exchange of letters—ordinary, sad, and dramatic at the sametime—telling the story of a love that blossomed under traumaticcircumstances. Paper Kisses covers the period from 1935 to 1941,when Rudolf, having fled Nazi Germany for the apparent safety ofLithuania, was to disappear from view.Sixty years later, at a stamp auction, author Reinhard Kaiserbought a packet of envelopes that still held their originalhandwritten contents. The tale he discovered on the pages ofRudolf's letters to his beloved "Ingelein" immediately captivatedKaiser. How did such precious personal correspondence end up on theauctioneer's table? What became of Ingeborg's letters to Rudolf?Did either of the star-crossed lovers survive the war? Kaisertracked down photographs, documentary records, and finally livingmembers of the couple's families to fill in the gaps of theirstory.In Paper Kisses, Kaiser allows the letters to speak forthemselves, while providing enough historic context to reveal howremarkable the couple's loyalty, optimism, and resourcefulness wereagainst the backdrop of the harrowing events of World War II.Kaiser's own fascinating literary detective work frames thenarrative, as he makes one unexpected find after another. PaperKisses is both a story of a poignant love affair and a chronicle ofa thrilling investigation.
作者簡介
Reinhard Kaiser, writer, translator, and editor, was born in 1950 and now lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has won many literary prizes for his books, including Paper Kisses.Anthea Bell's translations include the works of the Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Wilhelm Hauff, Christian Morgenstern, and E.T.A. Hoffmann. In 2002, her translation of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz won the Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize from the Goethe- Institut Inter Nationes.
