Recensori in anteprimaAnna Enquist

The characters in the monologues that make up a Leap seek a home, some kind of anchorage or self-realization, but circumstances or fate ensure that their goal remains elusive. Cato and Leendert are a pair of young lovers in Rotterdam during the spring of 1940. As bombs rain down on their city, Cato roams the streets in desperation, searching for Leendert...A doctor amid the same bombs and chaos finds himself faced with a dilemna when a wounded German general enters his operating room...In her home in Vienna, Alma Lahler reflects on her past with her husband Gustav, the famous composer. Haven given up her own musical ambitions and borne his children, she is torn between her husband and the man who was once her lover... Six monologues in all, by award-winning, bestselling Dutch author Anna Enquist, translated by Jeannette K. Ringold.