Sand
Wolfgang Herrndorf, translated by Tim Mohr
" Every single piece of evidence went against him, and the sum of the evidence was a death sentence."
" Every single piece of evidence went against him, and the sum of the evidence was a death sentence."
"In August of 1978, the summer I met Anna Trabuio, my father took a girl into the woods."
"It was Monday 3 June, but even though it was a Monday and he had been woken in the middle of the night, Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström would always think of it as the best day of his life. "
"The woman who found the body was a widow of around fifty called Ólafía."
"The wind began to blow gently, causing the windows of the sitting room to rattle as if in pain."
"The landscape took on a certain density after the rain, the colors of the forest seeming deeper."