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Title	:	Seven Years
Author	:	Peter Stamm
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	March 22nd 2011 by Other Press (NY) (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Contemporary. Novels

Seven Years

Peter Stamm

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 1208 Users | 156 Reviews

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Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women--and he can't make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury. But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working long hours coupled with their failed attempts at starting a family get the best of them. Alex soon finds himself kindling an affair with his college lover, Ivona. The young Polish woman who worked in a Catholic mission is the polar opposite of Sonia: dull, passive, taciturn, and plain. Despite having little in common with Ivona, Alex is inexplicably drawn to her while despising himself for it. Torn between his highbrow marriage and his lowbrow affair, Alex is stuck within a spiraling threesome. But when Ivona becomes pregnant, life takes an unexpected turn, and Alex is puzzled more than ever by the mysteries of his heart.
Peter Stamm, one of Switzerland's most acclaimed writers, is at his best exploring the complexities of human relationships. Seven Years is a distinct, sobering, and bold novel about the impositions of happiness in the quest for love.

Mention Books To Seven Years

Original Title:	Sieben Jahre
ISBN:	1590513940 (ISBN13: 9781590513941)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2012), Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) Nominee for Longlist (2009), LovelyBooks Leserpreis Nominee for Allgemeine Literatur (2009)

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Ratings: 3.48 From 1208 Users | 156 Reviews

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Alex is caught between two women: one, Sonja, highly desirable, intelligent and independent, and Iwona, drab, quiet, uneducated and totally dedicated. Sonja makes him feel inadequate and constrained, with Iwona he feels confident and free. He is married to one, but cannot let go of the other ... In his recent novel, SEVEN YEARS, Swiss author Peter Stamm explores the complications of intimate human emotions and relationships, seen primarily from the perspective of the man in the middle. While at

This is a novel that says isn't human desire odd and unpredictable, and isn't it a little disappointing too. Or it's a novel about a guy who marries a woman he doesn't love, and the stuff that happens when that happens. Sure Sonia's beautiful, but her ambition and non-existent sense of humour are a major hard-off. Ivonna is kind of great though, she felt real and tragic and pathetic, and she is what makes this novel weird and more interesting than it sounds. Peter Stamm isn't trying to write

Well this is one of those novels that just makes me wonder if professional reviewers are completely fucking high or if we even read the same book. I thought the plot was tedious and oppressive, the characters deeply unlikeable, and the prose stylistically barren. I am giving it two stars because most of this is deliberate and therefore competently done Stamm is apparently one of those writers who thinks that the best way to reflect the disorientation of the modern world is to write books that

Very crafty minimalism, although the plot is based on a very commonplace mechanism (most men aspire to marry down, not up).



Ugh. Main character is thoroughly unlikable...so are all the other characters. I have a difficult time relating to people who take zero responsibility for their own actions.I get the whole existentialist angle, but it just doesn't work in this novel...ended up totally inspid instead.

most all have some sort of addiction, maybe it's to crafting gross macrame do-dads, or cigarettes, heroin, booze, sex, bacon, running, reading, spanking, getting spanked, love, happiness.....but what if you were addicted to yourself? sure sure, an old greek tale, but really, what if, the only way you can be happy is to indulge in yourself, to your appetites, your sex, your love, to the utter length of screwing over your family, friends, colleagues, lovers, children? and then tell us the story