This wasn’t a parcel, the book was just found as is in her letterbox. It’s a small house with only two names on the building so I doubt it would be a mistake. I’m just wondering whether this passage could have a specific meaning / the book has a specific meaning? Whether this could just be a random thing? Is this a common thing to post books one doesn’t want anymore through letterbox? In B-W if that matters. Thanks!
by thrndbck
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You’re searching for meaning where there isn’t any.
looks to me like someone lost their book and it was put in your letter box because they assumed it was yours
Maybe just ask the other family in the house if it was meant for them?
It’s the first published book by a well known German author, not really best seller, but not a failure either. Critics named it “predictable, sometimes boring, but with interesting choice of words and sentence structure”
Günter Kunert was half Jew, a vocal critic of the Nazis, later joined the communist party SED in East Germany but was thrown out of their party when he no longer agreed with how the development of their ideology unfolded in every day life. He managed to leave the GDR in the late 70s and continued to write books not short on criticism of harmful political ideologies until he died.
If that doesn’t mean anything to you it was probably put in your box by mistake, it’s definitely not a hidden threat or whatever. Probably just an honest mistake.
Maybe the wrong mailbox. Someone borrowed it and took the wrong one. Is your surname “Müller” or “Schmids” by any chance. Maybe even “Jansen”, “Janssen” “Janßen” or “Jahnsen”.
So now you by yourself started writing a book. And suddenly, life was changed by a book. Good start, now what’s the meaning of the bookmark. Did someone stop reading at this point , just because the novel was boring? Who put it in the letterbox ?
Let’s scoobi-do this 🦮 gang