September 2022
Tote Winkel (Blind Spots)
Kriminalroman
by Sophie Sumburane
What if your husband was arrested for a rape that he admits to, and the victim looks exactly like you?Valentina is the pub king’s wife, she lives in a neat house with two adorable daughters. Every Wednesday,a young student comes to clean while she posts pretty pictures of her days in the suburbian idyll. What nobodyknows is that she has to count obsessively, disassociates, and forgets what she does or just did. Oneday she gets a call from the police: her husband has raped a woman and admitted to it. The victim is KatjaSziboula. She is a journalist, non-fiction writer; cold, controlled, living in a symbiotic marriage and constructivework relationship with Kay, a linguistic professor from South Africa who teaches in Potsdam. WhenValentina arrives at the police station and the officer shows her a photograph of the victim, Valentina recognizesherself on it, with a blue eye and a bloody lip. Did her husband really just mistake the two women,like she thinks at first? Is Katja her supposedly dead twin whose birth and death certificate she owns? Takingturns, Valentina, Katja and Kay tell a story that pulls the rug off from under your feet: suspenseful, shattering,outrageous.
