grow until they won the German Book Prize, it had a huge row with Suhrkamp because of her last novel. Will now enter the new Story by Katharina Hacker: easy, smart and in the best sense anachronistic. From Friedmar Apel It's all good - actually
So it is good that Katharina Hacker's first book, is not affected in the new publisher of these aspects. However, it is in "The strawberries from Anton's mother" again to the small group of childless forty year olds who live in Schöneberg and Kreuzberg and work and walk on Sunday at the Schlachtensee in Zehlendorf, where it goes well in fact and which are peculiarly delicate and vulnerable anyway. Nevertheless, it is not some part of the trilogy, but a self-contained story that parallels the definition of the novella equivalent. Although some events play out, "Alix, Anton and the other" as shown a role for the background of concern, including the murder in a Vietnamese restaurant, is not presumed to know of the book.
The story is told from different perspectives, the simultaneity of external and internal events is full of art, but exposed in the traditional text presentation. The focus will enjoy the view of Anton, practicing in Kreuzberg GP. He had the same love as on sensitive Alix his friend Jan, but renounced it in its favor. By a collision while cycling Anton Lydia learns to know and love. Even before he may make acquaintance with her young daughter, he is hoping for a joint home and change his life. How do you fertilize
the field of life?
On Anton's marriage and grandchildren at home waiting for Wolfsburg in Calberlah long Anton's parents Hilda and William, but it is too early to introduce them to Lydia. Hilde sends Anton and his friends every year strawberry jam from the fruits they grow on their ancestral soil. Earlier this year, but they forget to plant the strawberries in time. Anton persuaded the farmers Helmer, a stale already secretly use perennials in Hilde's bed. Against its forecast gardening mature the fruit, while Anton issues must ensure that its parents are suffering from rapidly progressive dementia. With "anxiety, with fear and bad conscience," it is in the sight of his mother's understandable, how can your life be expropriated. In addition, Lydia's past
breaks into the action. She was together with Rüdiger, who had fled from life in the small German town in the Foreign Legion and had hardened afterwards as mercenaries on the battlefields of the international identity. Also in Berlin, he still wears Camouflagehosen. The separation of Lydia and the child he can not get over yet. She had left him in the pregnancy to their own neglect of endangered life back in order. Rüdiger Martin stands to the side of having to protect his former pilot, a small man who thinks unsolicited, Lydia before Anton. Moreover, he is in strange ways to mirror his mother in which the failings of their life once again in sight, while her memory fails more.
The demonic side of the strawberry
is refined in narrowing the relation between the narrator and the voices of events related. While growing strawberries, growing Anton's love for Lydia, the growing concern about the parents growing fears of a diffuse threat, and it can not keep the old friends. In Katharina Hacker's poetic realism sensitivities in the image on the visible world into the very things of daily use to the sensual certainty. The strawberries finally appear as demonic symbols of the simultaneity of all the dazzling growth and decay, of devotion and vanity, lust and love, fear and inertia of the heart.
on the field near Calberlah is it also prepares the field on which all people and plot lines are brought together. The "unprecedented event" in Goethe's definition of the amendment but has occurred as a not calculated intrusion of nature into the human body already. Under the foliage will now only be the consequences of Anton's compassionate hoax visible. Since all go Home and feel defeated, although a very serious incident did not happen. Only Martin, "the little hunchback," remains for a while in the field and considering that time is now over. Now it is time to start over.
The task has just begun
The narrative is subtle, but unmistakably as a valuable lesson about love as a medium of perception, not afraid an outdated gravity. The love may come as a natural force, animating, animating and altering or missed, frightening and destructive. to purify you, to preserve and protect their fruits to sustain their modern hazards Contradictions and to make it appear to bear as a never-ending task. How and whether people cope in Katharina Hacker's novels her readers to this masterful and poignant novel will interest all the more.
Katharina Hacker: "The strawberries from Anton's mother." S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010th 176 pages, hardback, kr. 158, - including moms
Book Title: The strawberries from Anton's mother
Book Author: Hacker, Katharina
Text: FAZ
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