Okay, I’m…

I did some googling around and found this, which looks like Kindler Verlag’s winter catalog. I’m pretty sure it’s Bodies in Motion, because they describe it as “Poetisch und sinnlich — eine Familiengeschichte in der Tradition von Arundhati Roy.” (Google’s translator apparently doesn’t know the word “sinnlich,” but apparently it means “sensuous.”)

So vielfltig wie die Menschen sind die Gesichter der Liebe: Ein Vater in Sri Lanka entlsst seine talentierte Tochter in die Freiheit des Westens. Eine hochbegabte Studentin gibt ihre Karriere fr eine groe eigene Familie auf. Eine Frau glht in Leidenschaft fr ihre schne Schwgerin und heiratet nie. Ein Mann geht eine arrangierte Ehe ein und kehrt doch zu seiner Geliebten
zurck, als sie ihn braucht.

All diese Entscheidungsmomente fangen ganz unterschiedliche Formen der Liebe ein. Sie verbinden sich zur Geschichte zweier Familien im Spannungsfeld von Ost und West, Heimat und Neuland, Tradition und Sinnlichkeit.

Or, in other words:

As humans the faces of the love are as various: A father in Sri Lanka dismisses his talentierte daughter into the liberty of the west. A high-talented student gives her career up for a large own family. A woman glows in passion for her beautiful sister-in-law and never marries. A man dies an arranged marriage and returns nevertheless to his loving, when she needs him.

All these decision moments catch completely different forms of the love. They are connected for the history of two families in the area of conflict of east and west, homeland and new ground, tradition and sinnlichkeit.

Doesn’t sound too bad. 🙂

“Stories of love are as many-sided as humans themselves. A father in Sri Lanka lets his talented daughter enter the freedoms of the west. A highly talented student gives up her career to have a large family of her own. A woman throbs with passion for her sister-in-law, and never marries. A man enters an arranged marriage, but returns to his beloved when she needs him. All of these moments of decision capture very differnet kinds of love. They are tied to the stories of two families, on a stage crossing east and west, home and abroad, tradition and sensuality.”

The title is literally “Love-seekers,” but “suchende” also has connotations of “suechtig,” addicted.

All that said, that google translator’s pretty good.