Outside there’s a pandemic, inside there’s unemployment, on the other side of the wall there’s a Nazi neighbour with glioblastoma. Everything’s fine. Dora is tired of all the strict stay-at-home rules during the COVID lockdown and the stricter rules imposed by her climate activist journalist boyfriend. She decides to flee Berlin with her dog to Bracken, a countryside village, by buying a dilapidated house. But she is terrified to find that her neighbour is the village Nazi and that she is surrounded by right-wingers. What she eventually undergoes is a life-altering, paradigm-shifting transformation, and Dora is forced to question all her biases, her fears, and her prejudices.
Book Review: About People by Juli Zeh
Book Review: About People by Juli Zeh
Book Review: About People by Juli Zeh
Outside there’s a pandemic, inside there’s unemployment, on the other side of the wall there’s a Nazi neighbour with glioblastoma. Everything’s fine. Dora is tired of all the strict stay-at-home rules during the COVID lockdown and the stricter rules imposed by her climate activist journalist boyfriend. She decides to flee Berlin with her dog to Bracken, a countryside village, by buying a dilapidated house. But she is terrified to find that her neighbour is the village Nazi and that she is surrounded by right-wingers. What she eventually undergoes is a life-altering, paradigm-shifting transformation, and Dora is forced to question all her biases, her fears, and her prejudices.