Jeder liest Drecksack, Everyone’s Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby

Author:Nick Hornby
Language: deu
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-3-462-30799-3
Publisher: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag
Published: 2014-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

Everyone’s

Reading Bastard

Elaine and Charlie agreed to divorce each other some time between 9.30 and 10 a. m. on a Monday morning, in a coffee shop near their children’s school.

»Well, what on earth did you say to her? In the coffee shop? To make her want to divorce you?« Charlie’s mother asked him later in the week, when he’d finally mustered the courage to tell her.

»Two points here,« said Charlie. »One, I like how you automatically assume it was something I said. Rather than something she said. And two, divorces don’t just come out of the blue. Like a, like a sniper’s bullet. You can’t just be walking along, all happy, la di da, and then BANG! Ow! Divorce! Things have been bad for a long time.«

A long, long time. Years. When the fatal conversation took place, he was already living out of the family home, in a rented flat that was big enough for the children to stay in at weekends. (When Elaine and Charlie eventually sat them down and told them that the marriage was over, Emily, aged nine, said only »Der.«) Charlie and Elaine had been pretending – to themselves, to the kids – that this might not be a permanent state of affairs, that there was a way back from here if they chose to take it, but of course there wasn’t, not really. Even so, there was an element of shock, whatever he’d said to his mother. The weekend had been like other weekends they’d spent over the last few months – difficult, chilly, separate, sad, but nothing out of the ordinary. Walking to the tube station afterwards, he did feel as though he’d been hit by a sniper’s bullet, if a sniper’s bullet could also make one feel unburdened and a little merry, which he supposed it probably couldn’t. Why this particular Monday? Exactly a week later, when Charlie discovered that he had become known, to hundred of thousands of people, as somebody called Bastard, it all began to make sense.

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