Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas: jgo.e-reviews 5 (2015), 3 Rezensionen online / Im Auftrag des Instituts für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung in Regensburg herausgegeben von Martin Schulze Wessel und Dietmar Neutatz
Verfasst von: Kirsten Bönker
A cat slid across my path, a ribbon of shadow that paused long enough to measure me, then melted into an archway. From behind a sagging fence came the murmur of conversation—too low to catch words, high enough to sketch their shapes. I told myself curiosity was clinical, a probe into the town's edges; in truth, it was a hunger. There was a rhythm to the place, a heartbeat made of distant footsteps, the scrape of a chair, the drone of a lone radio.
A cat slid across my path, a ribbon of shadow that paused long enough to measure me, then melted into an archway. From behind a sagging fence came the murmur of conversation—too low to catch words, high enough to sketch their shapes. I told myself curiosity was clinical, a probe into the town's edges; in truth, it was a hunger. There was a rhythm to the place, a heartbeat made of distant footsteps, the scrape of a chair, the drone of a lone radio.