Word: grandmama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gisela Elsner's novel is composed of ordinary events in Leinlein's life: breakfast with Mama and Papa, watching Papa at work, a day with Grandmama, a quarrel between his parents, a country outing with the family. But through...
Leinlein's terrible and innocent eyes each episode is murderously dissected. Papa eats like a pig while Mama throws up into her napkin with revulsion. Grandmama is a steely old Nazi who relives the past by driving more nails into the crucifix above her bed. Since no one in the family will recognize Leinlein's lameness, every outing is a walk to Calvary at the end of which the child's feet are cut and bleeding; his elders' reaction is to abuse him for his weakness. Detail upon horrifying detail is piled with detachment and cold...