The Empire of the Senses

By Alexis Landau

Book Overview

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year The Empire of the Senses is an enthralling tale of love and war, duty and self-discovery. It begins in 1914 when Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated German Jew fighting in World War I, finds unexpected companionship on the Eastern Front; back at home, his wife Josephine embarks on a clandestine affair of her own. A decade later, during the heady, politically charged interwar years in Berlin, their children--one, a nascent Fascist struggling with his sexuality, the other a young woman entranced by the glitz and glamour of the Jazz Age--experience their own romantic awakenings. With a painter's sensibility for the layered images that comprise our lives, this exquisite novel by Alexis Landau marks the emergence of a writer uniquely talented in bringing the past to the present.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080417346X
• ISBN13: 9780804173469
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.2" x 7.9"