Um die preussische Staatsbürgerschaft zu erlangen, mussten Juden einen festen Nachnamen annehmen.

The tourist in their thousands disappeared, conjured away by time-tables.

You do sometimes remind me of the kind of man who is tempted to put himself in prison in order to avoid being hit by...

‘As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.’ […] ‘You mean, I have a home to go...

It would help if I were able to feel guilty. But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt.

Giovanni liked to believe that he was hard-headed and that I was not and that he was teaching me the stony facts of life. It...

‘Men – not just babies like you, but old men, too – they always nee a woman to tell them the truth.’

She seems, like most of the women down here, to have gone into mourning directly the last child moved out of childhood.

But I knew I could not open the door, I knew it was too late; soon it was too late to do anything but moan.