Submitted by lluncheon on Tue, 2012-11-20 13:09
Frank Deford’s novel Bliss, Remembered (Overlook, set against the ominous backdrop of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where the confident, young, and naive American falls in love with the charming son a German diplomat. Their passionate affair falters as their nations, and their perspectives, are confronted by war. The novel discusses whether love and politics can co-exist, and whether love once lost can be regained, or even if it should be.