Foreign Affairs

Male Tales of Lust & Love

Foreign Affairs

Male Tales of Lust & Love

Lambda Literary Award 2020 Nominated!

Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Short Story Collections of 2020!

In this newest story collection from award-winning writer, Daniel M. Jaffe, red-blooded American men make mischief while vacationing abroad. They encounter a serial killer in a Munich bathhouse, a gay Holocaust ghost in Prague, a shape-shifting seductress in Mexico City, a desperate prostitute in Seville, a closeted Catholic school administrator in Dublin, and many others. These stories will transport, titillate, intrigue, and tug at your heartstrings.

What People Are Saying About "Foreign Affairs:"

“Jaffe’s lively limpid prose features sharply etched characters and passages that shift between absurdist humor…sly social observation…and wry sensuality. The result is a redolent blend of atmospheric travelogue, earthy physicality, satire, magical realism, and Kafkaesque disorientation…. Rich, complex, entertaining tales of strangers in strange lands.” 

—  Kirkus Reviews, featured and starred review

“As a travel writer, Jaffe introduces his destinations as one would a friend, with intimacies known only to a close acquaintance.… His characters are imbued with wit, warmth, and whimsy, and despite some of their sexual proclivities, they are all human and relatable….A fine writer, Jaffe has a command of language and the difficult medium of the short story.…Though some might consider the stories bold in subject matter, Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love is an insightful collection of finely crafted stories.”

— San Francisco Book Review

“[S]urprising, refreshing, and thought-provoking…. Mr. Jaffe’s tales, both sexual and sexless, have broad appeal to readers occupying places up and down the Kinsey scale…. Kudos to Mr. Jaffe.”

— Rainbow Book Reviews

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