This was a slim and melancholy read, and I feel as if I am missing quite a bit of context.  The author is German, and although it was written in 1993, is set in the mid-1930s, and so mid-wars Germany.  There is nothing overtly political about the plot, but it is impossible to ignore what is looming ahead for Germany as well as the rest of the world. The setting is a quiet country town in the eastern German countryside, and the titular character is […]