Silence
“At first she resisted, closing her eyes and trying to evade them. But random memories continued to dance, unchecked, beneath her eyelids. A keen, stabbing pain ran through her body, as fine as silk thread and cutting. She knew it, and she had felt it, along with a pounding heart, after her telephone conversation with Hanna. The period she had forgotten was breaking powerfully over her, crushing her with the weight of old images. In the distance, the orange lights of a containership proceeded sl...owly across the calm water, the only sign that time was not at a standstill, even now. So peaceful. So detached.
July 1939 For years, the six of them had been riding their bicycles the almost eight miles to school in Kleve together. The boys rode to Freiherr von Stein High School, the girls to the girls’ secondary school.
Alwine, from the Kalder estate, had red curls and a loud, irreverent laugh, which she would let out over the schoolyard like a fanfare, and for which she was regularly entered in the discipline book.MoreLess
July 1939 For years, the six of them had been riding their bicycles the almost eight miles to school in Kleve together. The boys rode to Freiherr von Stein High School, the girls to the girls’ secondary school.
Alwine, from the Kalder estate, had red curls and a loud, irreverent laugh, which she would let out over the schoolyard like a fanfare, and for which she was regularly entered in the discipline book.MoreLess
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