Two men and a woman. On the varieties and ways of love The third novel by the world's bestselling author - now in a new edition At a US college, Madeleine studies the marriage plot in Victorian novels. While she broods over the ancient motives of the heart, real life breaks over her in the form of two young men. Leonard shows up at a seminar chewing tobacco and at the same time her boyfriend Mitchell shows up again, obsessed with the thought that she is meant for him and he is meant for her. 'A reading festival! brilliantly successful' (Felicitas von Lovenberg, FAZ), 'very big recommendation' (ORF Ö1) 'Love, hope, despair, faith, plus a novel about the history of the novel, about the Occident and the Orient, about growing up, thinking and reading. Only Jeffrey Eugenides was able to compose something so floatingly beautiful from it.'Daniel Kehlmann