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1. 1. Brecht's Lover

   

   A fictionalized portrait of an intense, clandestine affair between a charismatic, politically engaged playwright and a young woman, the novel probes how passion, artistic ambition and ideological conviction intersect and corrode one another; intimate details of love and manipulation are set against the pressures of artistic life and the tumult of twentieth-century Europe, exposing the moral compromises, betrayals and personal costs that accompany proximity to genius and power.

   The 13553rd Greatest Book of All Time