by Bodo Kirchhoff · Frankfurter Verlags-Anst. · tapa dura · ISBN 9783627001834
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«Die Liebe in groben Zügen» is the novel by Bodo Kirchhoff, published by Frankfurter Verlags-Anst. in hardback (670 pages, in German).
Vila and Renz, a couple working in television, live between Frankfurt and Italy with an adult daughter. When they learn they are to become grandparents, everything seems stable until Vila falls in love with another man. Kirchhoff weaves together three love stories and a failed youthful friendship to explore the thirst for love, marital happiness and ageing.
Published in 2012 and subtitled 'Roman', it was a candidate on the longlist for the Deutscher Buchpreis.
For readers of contemporary German fiction interested in novels about marriage, desire and maturity.
Bodo Kirchhoff is a German writer and novelist. He was born in Hamburg before moving with his family to Kirchzarten in the Black Forest in 1955, which he describes as a culture shock. In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television, such as long-runner Tatort, and has written movie screenplays. One of his best-known novels is Infanta (1990), which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2016, his novel, which features an African migrant in Italy, Encounter won the German Book Prize.
