💔Atypical pure love! ! ! !
1923, Munich.
From hyperinflation to the Nazis' rise to power, it was a stormy decade.
A family of Jewish bakers,
A cracked but not broken salt shaker that has been used repeatedly,
A daily life slowly crushed by time.
Bread is survival,
The salt shaker is identity;
The crack is destiny.
They knead the dough in crazy numbers,
Silence amidst the louder slogans,
Between the closed doors and broken windows,
Guarding an oven, trying to survive the darkness.
Salt will leak, jars will crack, and times will collapse.
There were some cracks from the beginning,
It is destined to be unable to heal.
Witness the birth and destruction of an empire through the eyes of a small person.
💔Atypical pure love! ! ! !
(With feelings and friendship)
"Salt shaker" is the soul image of the whole novel. It has evolved from a specific survival tool (salt storage) to a scale of economic collapse (scratched out), then to a container for family and faith (cracks, leaks), and then sublimated into a metaphor for national identity and the spirit of the times (irreparable fragmentation, the essence of salt). Every time this image appears, it promotes the plot and the inner changes of the characters, assumes huge narrative and symbolic functions, and demonstrates extremely high literary control. [Readers' batch]
(In the later period, a darker Stockholm syndrome appeared. Attention! It is a non-traditional form of understanding!!! There is a big essential difference! It is more like: distorted desire for identity and self-destruction)
Purpose: Using World War II as the background, it depicts the involuntary and emotional shackles of young people in a special era, explores the struggle of human nature under conflicting identities, and pays tribute to the souls who stick to their true hearts in suffering.