In some cases, such as with our best friends, the love we have for them can be more emotionally intimate and less stress inducing than any we have with a lover. Trotz ihrer Institutionalisierung wird sie als Inbegriff der Liebe romantisiert und mythisch verklärt.

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In the years since, people would often ask you about Uganda, what it was like, and you would never really know what to say. Those places, those bubbles, will not stop to think about what they did to you, that you were so traumatised that you had to flee at the earliest opportunity. Ha-nee reads the book “Love is Nonexistent” and ponders over the claims that it is fake and the implied truth that Dae-o abandoned Ae-jeong and her child. If autobiographical this insecurity may seem surprising, given the excellence of One of Them, his ‘Eton Memoir’, which I reviewed here, his fine achievement in this book, and his prominence as a successful football podcaster for Stadio (with a co-authorship with Ian Wright on the way). Sometimes – as in his delineation of the fear that comes with being a Black person living in Germany – this is especially heart-wrenching.

Alle wirken innerlich blitzblank, nur in unserem Inneren sieht es aus wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa, denkt sich Kioskbesitzer Armin, als er vergeblich versucht, erfolgreich zu meditieren. Considering that Annie Ernaux’s brief memoirs have dominated my reading over the last few weeks, I am in awe of the author who manages to squeeze a lot of topics using a limited about of space. palomar" by italo calvino vibes, which I loved: this narrative description that presents us with a subtly different and mindful way of perceiving the events around us and our actions. As he approaches his fortieth birthday, nearing the age where his father was killed in a brutal revolution, he drifts through this endlessly addictive and sometimes mystical city, through its slow days and bottomless nights, wondering whether he will ever escape the damage left by his father's death. Song form an understanding with each other despite the fact that they cannot be business partners again.

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Episode 16 was nothing special by any stretch of the imagination but it brings a natural ending to a convoluted love story that ran out of steam. Musa Okwonga is also a poet and there are some poets which also express the author’s feelings about Berlin. What is the point of all this, you wonder; and then, because you have rowed so far out into this life that it feels you have no other options, you start to type. The world needs to know about the racism in Berlin hidden behind the slogans like "In Berlin kannst du alles sein". It shows how far we have swallowed the romantic love narrative that they are characterised as being cold and unloving.For the first few months you are in Berlin you are largely invisible, or at least as invisible as a dark-skinned black man in an overwhelmingly white city can be. Okwonga is actually a highly regarded author in a variety of genres, but part of what he’s interested in here is how little that can seem to count for, spiritually as well as financially. I wish Musa Okwonga a lifetime of success and happiness, because it’s truly earned and well overdue. It is a bracingly honest story of love, sexuality and spirituality, of racism, dating, and alienation; of fleeing the greatest possible pain, and of the hopeful road home.

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I have always found it jarring and there are very few books utilising this writing which I have liked. Human love is a special thing, unique in its longevity and the sheer number of beings we are capable of loving. Movies, series and books about Berlin – no one will tell you so precisely about how is it to live here like Okwonga did. Maybe it’s time to admit that for a significant number of people romantic love is no longer the ultimate goal. A small book with an ocean inside, and, most of all, this was an experience of a read like I've not had in a long time.Okwonga's way of writng about Berlin strikes me more as a universal migration experience, with all the fears and hopes that entails.