• Regional Library of Karviná, Karviná-Mizerov, Czech Republic
• Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Munich, Germany
  
  
  

"But how many times had we made love for the last time? I don't know, many. Many."

An immediate bestseller in France, Making Love is an original and daring retelling of a classic theme: the end of an affair. Following a couple's final days together in Japan, the novel explores the frustration of two lovers trying to break up with each other while on vacation, even as they go on a wild and intimate ramble through the streets of Tokyo.

Toussaint writes with an economy and restraint that evoke the distinct imagery of film while allowing a startling proximity to the feelings of his characters. The result is vertiginous, standing traditional images on their head and transposing the conflict and confusion of lost intimacy onto the labyrinthine ultramodernism of Tokyo and Kyoto. Brilliantly written and strikingly original, this is a stunning work of new fiction from one of Europe's most promising authors.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint was born in 1957 in Brussels. He has written five previous novels, including Monsieur and The Bathroom.