She remained on the steps, waiting for Papa, watching the stray ash and the corpse of collected books.Everything was sad. Orange and red embers looked like rejected candy, and most of the crowd had vanished.She’d seen Frau Diller leave (very satisfied) and Pfiffikus (white hair, a Nazi uniform, the same dilapidatedshoes, and a triumphant whistle). […]
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n the evening, it would be wrung out and bleached again, ready for the next dawn.And that was when the fighting was only during the day.With his son gone, Hans Hubermann stood for a few moments longer. The street looked so big.When he reappeared inside, Mama fixed her gaze on him, but no words were
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“Some of it’s missing.” Mama counted the money a fourth time, with Liesel over at the stove. It was warm thereand it cooked the fast flow of her blood. “What happened, Liesel?”She lied. “They must have given me less than usual.”“Did you count it?”She broke. “I spent it, Mama.”Rosa came closer. This was not a
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The rot started with the washing and it rapidly increased.When Liesel accompanied Rosa Hubermann on her deliveries across Molching, one of her customers, ErnstVogel, informed them that he could no longer afford to have his washing and ironing done. “The times,” heexcused himself, “what can I say? They’re getting harder. The war’s making things tight.”
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