Clam-Gallas Palace

Saskia de Coster (Belgium-Flanders): Hero

Translation: Magda de Bruin-Hüblová, Pistorius & Olšanská 2008

The heroine of a linguistically playful, yet chilling novel written by the Belgian author de Coster is a maverick girl Lien, who tells a story of her friendship with an autistic boy Marcus. Surrounded by the adult world they create a world of their own, in which children games melt with first erotic experience and strangely innocent cruelty. Years later Lien is tasked with finding a soldier of the same name...