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METERasahiko sato is japan, teacher and just one day: retired. He lives in Germany with his younger wife Vera, the son is away. What will you do with your new life? He’s going for a walk, he doesn’t know where, he doesn’t know what, maybe he should write a book, maybe some fiction. On the way home, he passes a dry cleaner where he sees a small Japanese altar and a portrait of the goddess of mercy Kannon in the window. Behind this, inside the store, a woman the same age as his wife. He sees that her long black hair is braided and glued to the top of her head so that the hair that ends at the end of the braid unravels like a small fan. From time to time, Masahiko Sato’s life changes.
Longing for love the pain of a lost love, love never found, loneliness and alienation in our time is the subject of the collection of short stories “Aliens” by the Hungarian-German author Terézia Mora. (Rámus) which is now published in Swedish in Linda Östergaard’s translation. The ten tales take place in poorly drawn settings in Germany, Japan, Great Britain, and Hungary and depict a number of very different destinations. It is the old man who one day is robbed by a guy and starts running after him and then keeps running, the brave attempt of teenage mother Ella Lamb to make life march together, the lawyer and pension owner Amadeo who is has made one with his pension, the divorced father of young children who remembers his deceased childhood friend, the young couple Tim and Sandy who dream of life and the sea, the night porter who has forbidden feelings for his half sister , etc .: people who in one way or another have lost themselves but not hope.
