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In 1975 Kemal, the son of a rich Istanbul family, about to become engaged to a suitable girl, begins an affair with Füsun, a poor distant cousin who works in a boutique.
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A Strangeness in My Mind
Mevlut comes from an Anatolian village to Istanbul in 1969 to sell boza, a fermented drink, on the streets at night, and spends three years writing love letters to a girl he glimpsed once at a wedding.
The Bad Girl
Ricardo, a Peruvian who wants nothing more than to live in Paris, falls for a girl he meets as a teenager in 1950s Lima, and she comes back into his life over four decades under different names.
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Raif Efendi, a meek clerk in Ankara, leaves behind a notebook that tells of his youth in Berlin in the 1920s and his love for Maria Puder, a painter.
Call Me by Your Name
A seventeen-year-old falls for an older scholar during a summer on the Italian Riviera, and the intensity of first love becomes a wound that shapes his entire life.
Half a Lifelong Romance
Shen Shijun, a young engineer in 1930s Shanghai, falls for Gu Manzhen, a colleague, and over the years their love is pulled apart by family and circumstance.
South of the Border, West of the Sun
A Tokyo bar owner recalls a lost love from his youth, caught between the pull of what might have been and the quiet resignation of what is.
Monkey Grip
Nora, a single mother living in shared houses in inner Melbourne in the 1970s, falls in love with Javo, a junkie actor who keeps disappearing.
Acts of Desperation
A young Irish woman's obsessive love affair with an older man becomes a study of desire, abjection, and the willingness to destroy yourself for someone else's attention.
Kairos
A love affair between a young East Berlin student and a much older married writer begins at a bus stop in 1986 and outlives the wall that surrounds them.
The Red-Haired Woman
In 1985, a teenage boy from Istanbul takes a summer job digging a well with a master well-digger outside the city, and falls for a red-haired actress with a travelling theatre.
Pan
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, living alone with his dog in a forest hut in northern Norway one summer, falls for Edvarda, the moody daughter of the local trader, and the two torment each other.
The Sea, the Sea
Charles Arrowby, a celebrated theatre director, retires to a house on the rocks by the sea to write his memoirs, and there meets Hartley, the girl he loved as a boy, now an unremarkable married woman in the village.