The Pursuit of Pearls (2016)
“The plan was to collect exotic plants from German territories all over the world and bring them back to Berlin. Think about that. The entire German empire in a garden.”
They were walking along a gravel path through the lush borders of the Botanical Garden, a short ride on the S-Bahn to the southwestern borough of Steglitz. The garden was the city’s green jewel, an oasis of greenhouses, intersected by streams crossed by small bridges and stepping-stones, with meadow areas and formally laid parte...rres set behind high, unprepossessing walls. It was a favorite outing for Berliners, and even more for Hedwig and Jochen because it was where they first met.
It was more than a year ago, on a rare Saturday when Hedwig was not in classes at the Faith and Beauty school. She had taken a book with her to the Botanical Garden, but the book was only a prop because what she actually wanted was to sit beside the decorative lake beneath a monkey puzzle tree and imagine that she lived there. She loved the garden, partly because it was situated as far from Moabit as was possible in Berlin, and partly because being there allowed her to indulge her fantasy of being a Hohenzollern princess living in elegant splendor, rather than in a dank tenement with washing hanging in the courtyard.MoreLess
They were walking along a gravel path through the lush borders of the Botanical Garden, a short ride on the S-Bahn to the southwestern borough of Steglitz. The garden was the city’s green jewel, an oasis of greenhouses, intersected by streams crossed by small bridges and stepping-stones, with meadow areas and formally laid parte...rres set behind high, unprepossessing walls. It was a favorite outing for Berliners, and even more for Hedwig and Jochen because it was where they first met.
It was more than a year ago, on a rare Saturday when Hedwig was not in classes at the Faith and Beauty school. She had taken a book with her to the Botanical Garden, but the book was only a prop because what she actually wanted was to sit beside the decorative lake beneath a monkey puzzle tree and imagine that she lived there. She loved the garden, partly because it was situated as far from Moabit as was possible in Berlin, and partly because being there allowed her to indulge her fantasy of being a Hohenzollern princess living in elegant splendor, rather than in a dank tenement with washing hanging in the courtyard.MoreLess
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