"fear that shreds the brain and the heart in the toilet swallowed. Fear."
Although currently the Catholic Church for sexual abuse of minors came into the twilight, such an abuse usually takes place within the family circle, in which children are defenseless against this violence.
In 1986 when this subject was still a long way in the spotlight, appeared the first novel "The fear of love" Liane Dirks. From the perspective of four years of Anne, who is at the end of the novel 11 years old, we select the story of a childhood. The beginning of the novel already replaced from Betroffentheit.
"Once a woman came vorbeigepflogen our window. I was very young, but I grade was watching when they flew.
And then I learned that fly people can not. It landed with a dull bang on the stone tiles in the yard, and my mother said, which did not wanted to fly. The fall would have. "
nonsense design, and absolutely accurate in word and compaction takes this remarkable prose of the novel. The girl four years old, is the first sexual Annnäherungsversuche of the father in a dream-laden images are told:
"Sometimes at night, suddenly the dear moon before the butterfly net, I woke up, opened her eyes as the white moon face hung close to the net, looked like his dad and whispered good night ... "
The father is hotel chef and a drunkard. He "loves raw meat and wild life, lush women and beer .." , in a dispute with the mother also flies once the porcelain. Has he made something, it throws its donor rolls into the street. So she goat of Hamburg to Barbados and then to Munich, Rothenburg, etc. The father is very fond of shows, of course, finally we experience the story from the perspective of the youngest daughter, and of course she loves her father, the storyteller, the stories in his wake at night makes the dolls that talk then walk, laugh and cry, rant and bill. Reckoning with how the doll mum has treated them during the day. The mother has sad eyes like Ingrid Bergman, it has life differently. Not only one life between building and tearing off of beds and tents. The father always brings his daughters to bed. is
very successful in this novel, the viewing angle from the perspective of the youngest daughter. This is how the reader only that which tells us the perspective of this girl, and as she understands his environment. This friendly father, who obviously knows intimately with his daughters as his wife, this drunkard of Koch, who ingratiated himself into the souls of children in order to commit sexual abuse, insidious is going on, very slowly, step by step. The mother wants "to cover the shame" also the pastor, the trust the children to tell of the shame is different, and evaporates, because he is uncomfortable. The daughters live with the pressure to do something forbidden, because they have been shouldering guilt be.
"I do not not know if I want to see angels, I'm a bad child who does illegal things." Read
So are just 140 pages. But what for whom.
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