The Affair

Hans Koning

The Affair, Koning’s first novel, is the debut title in NewSouth's reprint series of his work. The book traces a young student’s increasingly obsessive involvement with his partner, who sees their relationship as a pleasantly unimportant affair.

Praise for The Affair:

An unabashedly sensuous story…written with insight and imagination and huge skill.
-New York Herald Tribune

(Koning) writes with power and sincerity. His short novel is taut, raw, reflecting in its miniscule personal vortex the vast cauldron set bubbling worldwide by man’s inhumanity to man.
-New York Times Book Review

…with scarcely a lapse of taste or skill, (Koning) captures the many-splendored hues of fleshly delights.
-Time

Also by Hans Koning:

An American Romance

The Petersburg-Cannes Express

A Walk With Love and Death

Zeeland, or Elective Concurrences

about the author
Hans Koning is a prolific and critically acclaimed author who has served as a staff reporter for the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly.  He has published thirteen novels, several of which have been made into movies; ten non-fiction books; three plays; two translations; and a children's book.  Koning's newest novel, Zeeland or Elective Concurrences, was also published by NewSouth Books,