The Berlin Wall which sliced a city in two and set families and friends against each other the millions of displaced people following the Second World War bureaucracy, Ordnung, and the academic disciplines of rhetoric and logic all inform his experiential and intellectual background. Having lived through the major events of the second half of the 20 th Century in Germany he is no stranger to the personal ramifications of the political big picture. His house is quiet and his days are empty of events but his mind is active, and into this void rushes the plight of a group of refugees and asylum seekers. Richard is a widower and a recently retired professor of Classics. Full of generosity and humanity, it manages to be wide‐ranging and universal and yet astonishingly simple.
This is a book that offers an intelligent fictionalised response to the refugee crisis by distilling the unimaginable scale and horror of a worldwide problem to the personal stories of a few people, played out in today’s Berlin.
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