Life is Elsewhere
“Toward the end of the war she received another official notification that he had died in a concentration camp.Her marriage had been joyless, but her widowhood was grand and glorious. She found a large photograph of her husband from their early days together, and she put it into a gilded frame and hung it on the wall.Soon the war ended with great jubilation in Prague, the Germans withdrew from Bohemia, and Mama began a life that enhanced the austere beauty of renunciation; the money she had inhe...rited from her father having been used up, she dismissed the maid, after Alik's death she refused to buy a new dog, and she had to look for a job.There were still other changes: her sister decided to give the apartment in the center of Prague to her newly married son, and to move with her husband and younger son into the ground floor of the family villa, while Grandmania settled into a room on the widow's floor.Mama had been contemptuous of her brother-in-law ever since she had heard him assert that Voltaire was a physicist who had invented volts.MoreLess
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