Parole Text:Buch

Pepsi loves life and the flickering sleepiness of summer days. Her parents live and work in Germany and come to see her at her grandfather’s secluded farm in Dalmatia only during summer holidays. At times she stays with other relatives, yet wherever she is, she always remains a stranger. It is nature and the outdoors what make her feel at home, wandering on her bare feet through the grass. When her parents come to fetch her to live with them and her siblings in a village in Hesse, Pepsi would like to just leave again at once. At the same time, however, her new life holds things in store to which the girl feels magnetically drawn: the world of books and letters, the German language, which she falls in love with as unexpectedly and deeply as she later does with Aleksandar. Then she is being barred from doing her A-levels and going to university, because, so she’s told, she’s not a boy. It feels like a stab in the heart, a farewell – and like a new beginning.