The praise for The History of Love over the years has been nothing short of incredible, with some critics going so far as to state that she reaffirms faith in the power of fiction.

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She fell in love with the city and its people and recorded a paean of praise, first in French and then in German, the language of the former oppressor.

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Indifferent to the praise of "the common people, " he will not "flatter them for their love, " and his adamant refusal to do so makes him vulnerable to the scheming of a pair of jealous pols (Philip Goodwin and Derrick Lee Weeden) who seek to bring Coriolanus to his knees by turning the fickle mob against him.

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