Boeken – 2024
“Dat het oorlog was, vernam de baron pas één dag na de keizerlijke proclamatie. Als steeds had hij de krant, die na de middag uit de hoofdstad was gearriveerd, pas de volgende ochtend gelezen. Maar ook toen had hij het haast niet kunnen geloven…” “Die avond barstte de hel los. De onderwereld had haar poorten…
“ ‘What’s your name?’ ‘I already told you: Gabriele.’ Marco Steiner laughed. ‘What’s so funny?’ ‘That sounds silly too.’ He was satisfied with this response. Marco knew he must not repeat her name. Words shared in common with his old language were always a problem. Although he had finally accepted that there were women here…
In the disorienting weeks after Kala went missing, this room took on its own nausea, the happy idea that – if I not touched anything at all – if I left everything just as it was, she will come back…. Her name echoing across the sky, voices along the train track, shadows under every bridge,…
‘What did you tell Sisi?’, asks Adam. Teddy says: ‘Nothing. We don’t even know how long we’ll be away. Might only be a few nights. She probably won’t even notice I’m gone. What did you tell your dad?’ That sounds weird to Adam, like Teddy has a girlfriend and Adam just has his father. But…