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Carry Me

Peter Behren’s, a Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, discusses his new novel Carry Me, a harrowing love story set on the Isle of Wight in the years just before the second World War.

About Carry Me:

During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. Reunited on a Frankfurt estate in that war’s hungry aftermath, Karin and Billy become fascinated with tribal rituals found in the Wild West stories of Karl May, whose Winnetou tales are among the most popular books published in Germany. Coming of age in Frankfurt and Berlin, Karin and Billy share a passion for speed, jazz, and nightclubs. They also share a fantasy of escape—from darkening Germany, from history—to El Llano Estacado, the high plains of Texas and New Mexico, vividly reimagined in May’s fiction.











When: Mon., Mar. 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: BookCourt
163 Court St., Brooklyn

Price: Free
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Peter Behren’s, a Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, discusses his new novel Carry Me, a harrowing love story set on the Isle of Wight in the years just before the second World War.

About Carry Me:

During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. Reunited on a Frankfurt estate in that war’s hungry aftermath, Karin and Billy become fascinated with tribal rituals found in the Wild West stories of Karl May, whose Winnetou tales are among the most popular books published in Germany. Coming of age in Frankfurt and Berlin, Karin and Billy share a passion for speed, jazz, and nightclubs. They also share a fantasy of escape—from darkening Germany, from history—to El Llano Estacado, the high plains of Texas and New Mexico, vividly reimagined in May’s fiction.

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