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A new novella from the eminence grise of German letters - a story of doomed love between a teenage boy and his teacher, set in the 1930s in a small Baltic fishing community
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The delicately paced structure of Siegfried Lenz's novella begins with the memorial ceremony for a popular young English reacher, Stella Petersen, seamlessly alternating between this scene and eighteen-year-old Christian's memory of a summer love affair with his tutor.They keep their mutual attraction concealed at school and as the season goes on the lovers continue to meet discreetly. Tragedy strikes when Stella goes on holiday with friends, sailing around the Danish islands. As the yacht returns to Hirtshafen at the end of the trip, a storm breaks. Before Christian's eyes his beloved is flung overboard and fatally wounded.
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