Background for Love

By: Helen Wolff, Marion Detjen, Tristram Wolff (Translator), Jefferson Chase (Translator)

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Hardcover | 6 June 2024

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224 Pages

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In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover escape the rising fascism of 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the Cote d'Azur. As they drive along stunning bays and linger over sumptuous meals, they are enchanted by each other. But their harmony soon falters, and the woman decides she must leave in search of a cottage of her own near Saint-Tropez. There, amid the vineyards and lemon trees, she will forge startling new connections and pass an unforgettable summer of independence and freedom.Background for Love is an autobiographical novel by the great publisher Helen Wolff, who together with her husband, Kurt Wolff, set up Pantheon Books in America after fleeing Nazi Germany. In the fascinating companion essay, historian Marion Detjen, the author's great-niece, delves into the basis of the novel in Helen's own life as well as the political and social forces that led her to abandon hope of publishing it.Recently published for the first time and translated by the author's grandson, Tristram Wolff, this is a lushly atmospheric, irresistible story of passion and self-discovery.

Industry Reviews

'A fresh, self-confident tone, a distinctive beauty that needn't fear comparison with books by Irmgard Keun or Erich Kastner' - Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

'A fast-paced, highly intense, emotionally gripping, autobiographically grounded story' - Buchkultur

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