Love in the Era of Hate. Chronicle of One Feeling, 1929-1939

In his virtuoso manner, Florian Illies brings the 1930s to life, a decade of intense political and cultural tension. Jean-Paul Sartre eats cheesecake with Simone de Beauvoir in the Berlin restaurant Kranzler-Eck, Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin experience passionate nights in Paris and "Quiet Days in Clichy," F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway immerse themselves in passionate romances in New York, Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel flee into exile, just like Katia and Thomas Mann.
In 1933, the "golden twenties" come to an abrupt end. It is during this time that the National Socialists seize power in Germany, burn books, and violence against Jews begins. Florian Illies takes us back to an era of exceptional political catastrophe to tell the story of the greatest lovers in cultural history. An exciting and beautifully planned journey into the past that reads like a commentary on our uncertain present.