Love in a Time of Hate (Lyubov v Epokhu Nenavisti)

In his masterful style, Florian Illyes brings the 1930s to life, a decade of escalating political and cultural tensions. Jean-Paul Sartre shares cheesecake with Simone de Beauvoir at Berlin's Kranzler-Eck, Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin experience wild nights in Paris and 'Quiet Days in Clichy,' F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway plunge into passionate romances in New York, and Bertolt Brecht and Helena Weigel flee into exile, like Katia and Thomas Mann. In 1933, the 'Golden Twenties' come to an abrupt end. It was then that the National Socialists seized power in Germany, burned books, and began committing violence against Jews. Florian Illyes takes us back to an era of extraordinary political catastrophe to tell the story of the greatest lovers in cultural history. A thrilling and beautifully crafted journey into the past that reads as a commentary on our uncertain present.