An Exclusive Love: A Memoir

By Johanna Adorján

Book Overview

Tactfully and affectionately, Johanna Adorj n has reconstructed the day of her grandparents' suicide. Vera and Istv n were anything but ordinary. Chain-smoking and glamorous, they exuded the aura of a more elegant age. And they had a past which they did not discuss--even within the family. Decades ago they had fled disaster, started a new life in Denmark and--so it seemed--never looked back. Sixteen years after her grandparents' death, Johanna Adorj n sets out to fill the gaps of their story, in the process discovering unexpected things about herself and her family. Against the backdrop of the horrors of the 20th-century, she brings Vera and Istv n back to life--a fascinating couple, peculiarly stylish, stubborn, eccentric. With an extraordinary blend of true reporting and novelistic recreation Johanna Adorj n tries to understand their last and powerful act. Beautifully written, tender but never sentimental, An Exclusive Love is a brilliantly-constructed memoir and a gorgeous romance, a tale of two people who died as they lived: inseparable.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393080013
• ISBN13: 9780393080018
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.8" x 6.0"