"A moving meditation on identity and belonging, and a love story to get happily lost in." --Montreal Gazette
"Behrens is a beautiful, lyric writer. His understanding of the age and command of it, moment to moment, is impressive. . . . Everything is beautiful in the details, in the smallness of personal moments." --NPR "Behrens captures his narrator's naïveté and the casual anti-Semitism of the times with great skill and intelligence." --The New York Times Book Review "Behrens is so fine at both sweeping and granular evocations of history, so good at vividly and economically painting his minor players. . . . [His] prose thrills to the indelible and irrevocable." --Washington Post "Vividly imagined. . . . This ambitious novel provides a panoramic view of a continent and a microscopic view of two individuals hovering precariously between the two World Wars. . . . A stunningly intimate portrait." --Booklist "Staggeringly epic." --Toronto StarDuring Billy Lange’s childhood on the Isle of Wight, he is entranced by Karin, the wild and elusive daughter of a German-Jewish baron who employs Billy’s parents. Years later, after the upheavals of World War I, the two children are reunited on the baron’s Frankfurt estate. Billy and Karin first bond over the popular Wild West stories of Karl May, and later over their passion for jazz and Berlin nightclubs. But they also come to share a fantasy of escape from the 1930s Germany that is rapidly darkening around them—escape to the high plains of Texas and New Mexico they’d read about as children. Against the backdrop of Hitler’s rise to power, their friendship deepens into a love affair with extraordinarily high stakes. Brilliantly conceived and elegantly written, Peter Behrens’s Carry Me is both an epic love story and a lucid meditation on Europe’s violent twentieth century.
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