Die Liebeshandlung

About the paths of love and the love of books. America, early 1980s, a college on the East Coast. Madeleine Hanna studies the "love plot" of Victorian novels. While she contemplates the age-old motives of the heart, real life crashes in on her in the form of two young men. Leonard appears in a seminar, chewing tobacco, and soon Madeleine finds herself entangled in an erotically and intellectually charged relationship. At the same time, her old friend Mitchell resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is meant for him and he for her.

A book about all the great themes: love, hope, despair, faith, as well as a novel about the history of the novel, about the East and West, about growing up, thinking, and reading. Only Jeffrey Eugenides could compose something so ethereally beautiful from this, such a bright, perfect work. The new major novel from the author of the worldwide success "Middlesex.".