My Father's Notebook (2006)
My Father's Notebook
“I wondered where my father slept when he was in the mountains. I knew there was another woman in his life, and he knew that I knew, but it remained a secret between us. Now that I’m so wrapped up in his notebook, I’m reminded of her for the first time in years. I can’t get her out of my mind. It’s a pity I don’t have a picture of her, that I have no idea what she looked like. I don’t even know if she’s still alive, though I suspect she is. You’re less likely to die, in my opinion, if you have a secret to pass on. I think s he’ll go on living until she and I somehow manage to meet. Here, in the silence of the polder, I’d like to utter her name, to shout it out loud, but I can’t, because I don’t know it. Someone in Saffron Village once told me that she was the daughter of a Russian immigrant and that she lived in a mountain village near the border of the former Soviet Union. Though I’d never met her or officially known of her existence, she and I had a tacit agreement.She did a lot to h...elp the party.MoreLess
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