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¿Los sordos pueden oír los latidos de su propio corazón, frau Elena?

Мальчики входят в полутемный вестибюль. Перед ними двустворчатая дверь. Фредерик нажимает кнопку, высоко внутри дома что-то лязгает, и Вернер шепчет: – У вас есть лифт? Фредерик улыбается. Лифт с грох...

1944

A fourth door, and a fifth, on and on until you reach a thirteenth, a little locked door no bigger than a shoe. The children lean forward. And then? Behind the thirteenth door—the guide flourishes one...

A vida toda você espera; agora, quando finalmente acontece, você está pronto?

All twelve children sit riveted. In the play, the invaders pose as hook-nosed department-store owners, crooked jewelers, dishonorable bankers; they sell glittering trash; they drive established villag...

Between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.

Breitenau. The first policeman

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life.

But she is angry. At Etienne for doing so little, at Madame Manec for doing so much, at her father for not being here to help her understand his absence. At her eyes for failing her. At everything and...

But to raise one’s hopes is to risk their falling further.

Cada minuto que passa é um minuto a menos nesta casa. Nesta vida.

Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune.’ 

Doesn't everything die at last and too soon?

Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me.

Don't you miss the world? He is quiet; so is she. Both ride spirals of memory.I have the whole world right here, he says, and taps the cover of Darwin, And in my radios. Right at my fingertips.Her unc...

Ele tinha uma presença tão apagada. Era como estar em uma sala com uma pena. Mas a alma dele brilhava com uma bondade fundamental...

Everything has led to this: the death of his father; all those restless hours with Jutta listening to the crystal radio in the attic; Hans and Herribert wearing their red armbands under their shirts s...

Good with tools, Herr Siedler is saying. Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you. General Heissmeyer’s schools. Best of the best. Teach the mechanical sciences too. Code breaking,...