num_pages: 185
description: A renowned cultural journalist delivers an extraordinary account of her grandparents by reconstructing hour by hour the day of their suicide. Johanna Adorjn's grandparents were unconventionally elegant and endlessly exotic; they survived the Holocaust fled Budapest during the uprising of 1956 and lived a glamorous and mysterious life in Denmarktheir pasts never discussed even within the family. An Exclusive Love is Adorjn's poignant and loving reconstruction of what may have happened on the day of their deaths when Adorjn was just twenty. Investigating the rich and surprising story of their lives Adorjn reveals the compromises they made and risks they took and what it meant for her own family. This memoir tells of a couple's extravagant devotion to each other and their granddaughter's later discovery of complex personalities long-buried family secrets and why they ultimately decided together to take their own lives. W. G. Sebald's translator Anthea Bell renders Adorjn's brilliantly constructed powerfully concise memoir with stunning clarity. Beautifully written tender but never sentimental An Exclusive Love is a vivid portrait of a true twentieth-century couple. .
language: English
title: An Exclusive Love
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company