Man in Shadow
About This Novel
"People can tell where you come from at a glance." "The father is a single tree, living in isolation, and an open fist that may be clenched at any time and fall on his daughter." Following the success of "She's from Mariupol", Natasha Wardin embarked on a journey to trace her father, telling the story of her mother's suicide in 1956. The author longs for a normal life and desperately wants to get rid of her origin as a displaced person, integrate into German society, and escape from her Russian roots. However, her father imprisons her, forbids her to wear red shoes, beats her, and tries every means to keep her away from the German world. The father who frightened her all the time was born in the Tsarist Russia era and spanned almost the entire 20th century. His life has always been a mystery to her daughter: Why did her father refuse to learn German? He could only speak two words, "yes" and "no"? Why did he remain silent about his first forty years in Russia? Through all the silence, somewhere in the shadows, is a tumultuous and appalling history. In the process of trying to find the key to understanding, Natasha used her experience of being homeless and having nowhere to go to write about her father's silence, as well as the contradictions and struggles of the abnormal father-daughter relationship.
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