The Archive Of Feelings Peter Stamm Michael Hoffman Translation by Peter Stamm, Michael Hoffman (translation) 9781635422764, 1635422760 instant download after payment.

A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review). 

Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late mother’s house with the obsolete archive of the newspaper he once worked for, he looks back on days spent poring over files and clippings, increasingly withdrawn from the world. His occasional relationships never amounted to anything, and the memory of Franziska—who became pop singer Fabienne—continues to haunt him as she appears in the media. 

When the two cross paths again, the possibility of a different life feels achingly real. But should he risk the comfort of his ordered existence for a romance that might never match what he imagined? 

A subtle, mesmerizing portrait of late-blooming passion, The Archive of Feelings showcases Peter Stamm at his best.

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Peter Stamm is the author of the novels The Sweet Indifference of the World, To the Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, and Agnes, & the short-story collections We’re Flying & In Strange Gardens & Other Stories. For his entire body of work & his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, & in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize.