Novel
Dreaming, inventing, remembering: A great novel about a little womanI knew my grandmother, but I did not know it was her. Linda, a translator from Persian, likes to be guided by her dreams, and so one day she finds herself in Lüneburg: Her barely known grandmother Ida lived there immediately after the Second World War, fled from Upper Silesia, widowed, with five children. Just under one and a half meters tall, she worked for the "Director of English Cinema". This half-sentence ignites Linda's imagination, and she is already in the middle of the period of British occupation, from 1945 to 1949: Ida loses her husband, Ida scrubs laundry for the Tommys, and Ida meets Mr. Thursday. She starts working for him at Astra Cinema and, with all her enthusiasm for the films, hardly notices that he falls in love with her ... The cinema becomes a counter-image to the harsh reality through which Ida and her little rascals fight their way as "escapees", with ingenuity, the power of dreams and the love that unites them. By becoming their narrator out of longing for the grandmother she did not have, Linda changes herself - and on top of that she tells the story of an entire era.
