Self-Portrait with Bonaparte

Gambling and Love

From the moment she met him, he’s dominated her life. Now she must come to terms with the fact that he’s disappeared from the scene. Bonaparte, her lover – and a notorious gambler – is apparently gone for good. Doggedly, she reflects on their love, and the things that connected her to him. As she photographs East German landscapes, she recalls their time together. Did their love story come to an end along with their casino visits?

A new edition of this early romance novel by Julia Schoch. Following the great success of ‘Couple of the Century’, it is time to take a second look at this love story ‘with sentences like works of art’ (rbb) – told in clear, brilliant, dancing style.

»This portrait thrives on the moods that Schoch creates in her calm but nuanced language, with meticulous attention to every last detail of the central theme.« Süddeutsche Zeitung

• Award-winning, best-selling author Julia Schoch on love, loss and gambling
• »Ever since Dostoevsky’s ‘The Gambler’, the literary world has known that gambling rarely brings happiness. Rarely, however, has been written so sadly and yet unsentimentally about it as in ‘Self-Portrait with Bonaparte’.« Der SPIEGEL
  
• For readers of Alex Schulman, Antje Strubel and Anne Tyler