Love in the era of hatred. Chronicle of one feeling, 1929-1939

In his virtuoso manner, Florian Illies reviving the 1930s, a decade of rapid growth of political and cultural tension. Jean-Paul Sartre eats a cheesecake with Simone de Bovoir in the Berlin restaurant Kranzler-Eck, Henry Miller and Anais Nin experienced turbulent nights in Paris and “Quiet Days in Clichy ", F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway are immersed in passionate novels in New York , Bertolt Brecht and Helena Vagel run into exile, like Katya and Thomas Mann.
In 1933, the Golden Twenties end sharply. It was at this time that the National Socialists seize power in Germany, burn books and begins violence against Jews. Florian Illies returns us in the era of an exclusive political catastrophe to tell about the greatest lovers in the history of culture. A wave and perfectly planned journey into the past, which is read as a commentary on our uncertain present