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European Authors write shorter books. I don't know if that's universally true but while in New York I finished two books. Florian Zeller's "Lovers or Something Like It" and Benjamin Lebert's "The Bird Is A Raven" both are about European men French and German respectively who seem incapable of 'true' love. In Zeller's work the man at the center of the story gets love whenever he wants it, he is good at attracting women but has no desire to keep them. Except when a girl who is very vulnerable moves in with him...oh my it was a good read in that the translation seemed to capture a kind of self destructive yet poignant uncertainty to which I, and probably other modern men can relate. On the other side, "The Bird is a Raven" focused on young men hoplessly and destructively obssesed with women who don't really care about them and who resist exploration due to personal weakness (and detstructive obssession).