Couplings

Peter Schneider

Original title: Paarungen

earliest edition we have, 1992 Rowohlt, 1992 344 pages

Phoenix fiction

In his first novel, Couplings, Schneider turns his sharp eyes on the difficulties of love in the peculiar construct that was preunification Berlin. Eduard, a molecular biologist living in West Berlin, keeps a notebook entitled "A Concise Treatise on the Average Half-life of Love Relationships." The data he collects in it support only one conclusion: a strain of separation virus is raging in the walled city. "An init...

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Editions we hold

Couplings edition · 1998 · University of Chicago Press · 293 pages
Couplings edition · 1996 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 293 pages
Paarungen (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) paperback · 1994 · Distribooks Int'l+inc · 344 pages
Paarungen edition · 1992 · Rowohlt · 344 pages

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