The knowledge she has not let it rest Ferdinand until he gets them to buy in the Norwegian Tromsø. Just those letters will contain the third part of the novel. Ultimately, it is Ferdinand, the Olgas biography as we got to read the first part reconstructed.

He becomes the keeper of her treasure – the many stories from her own life, of Herbert’s adventures and her letters, the addressee may they never got to read. Until her death the brave, langwelige something and colorless permanent Ferdinand remains a constant companion and listener. The new beginning after the war, a new part of the novel, a new place and a new narrator, youngest son of a pastor’s family am Neckar, Olga worked their daily bread in their household. Two world wars rinsed started by the quick wash, where he his deaf protagonist spared the horrible noise of the tanks, low-flying aircraft, bomb explosions and screaming dying and the other senses all the more force gives ( “the explosion of the locomotive was a toneless, colorful fireball”).

In the meantime, Europe is immersed in the chaos of war. With 53 years Olga lose their hearing, changes to a school for the deaf, takes sewing. During all the years before, she has kept away from the details of his adventures and sought their own happiness in educational tasks as a school teacher in cultural engagement in the village, in the promotion of a two-year foundling (from the ironically later an SS torturer is). 1913 breaks the expedition, but back Herbert versa (by the way, an eponymous historical model has) never.įor a long time hoping Olga still on the return of the beloved. He embarks on countless other long-distance travel, gives lectures about gaining sponsors until he raises after a long preparation of the Arctic Challenge: Northeast Passage and the North Pole. But the trip to the dark recesses of colonialism can not breastfeed Herbert’s thirst for size and width. With cavalry, artillery and machine gun the German being fought heroically the poor Herero ( “a breed of people who still at the deepest level of culture is”) and deprives them of their livelihoods, so that the “black devil” thirst thousands and starve. With “Hurray” is about 1904 by German Southwest. Soon, offers him the expansionist policy of the Empire opportunities of probation. At heart he is drawn into the final frontier, in empty desert landscapes in the extreme regions of the Arctic, and his motivation requires the utmost “to make Germany great and great to be with Germany, even if it his atrocities against themselves and others demanded”. His loud-mouthed speeches and his master race practices it has nothing to oppose. Olga finds this talk though “hollow”, but admired the other hand, Herbert’s stately appearance and rigorous determination. He read Nietzsche, and he decides to be “superman” one.

If it was not Herbert’s desire for greater things.

Olga roman bernhard schlink