Deadline: 26 July 2011
Two people who have grown old together decide to take their own lives. He is terminally ill; she doesn't want to be without him. One Sunday in autumn, they clean the apartment, leave the dog with a friend and go to their deaths holding hands.
Tactfully and affectionately, Johanna Adorján has reconstructed the day of her grandparents’ suicide. Her grandparents were anything but ordinary. Chain-smoking and glamorous, they exuded the aura of a more elegant age. They also had a past they did not speak about — a past they did not want to remember. As Hungarian Jews, they had survived the Holocaust, had become Communists and during the uprising in Budapest in 1956 had fled the country.
Sixteen years after her grandparents’ death, Johanna sets out to fill the gaps of their story, in the process discovering unexpected things about herself and her family.
Source: Random House
Excerpts from the book will be read in German and English by Lena Naumann and Nwatilo Mawiyoo.
An Exclusive Love:
A Memoir by Johanna Adorján
Literature Reading
6.00 p.m.
Goethe-Institut Library
German and English
Entry free
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