Status Updates From Konfidenz: A Novel

i need to lock in and finish soon

‘And then comes—real anguish—where is the woman you love? Did she ever exist as you remember her? But that is another story. Not your story. Even in the most intense moment I couldn’t lose the sense of my own hard being—my love was borrowed from some other place—ls that why, like so many other men from other countries you know all too well—is that why he refuses to listen to the words that might destroy his faith?’

‘Salmones: a way of differentiating them from those exiles who could not go back home—a way of reminding them of the clear, turbulent, cascading rivers of their homeland, so they wouldn’t forget they were destined to return to their place of birth to hatch new life like salmon do. You told yourself that here was a story lived by people from a country such as your own, far away—with a past nobody seems to remember.’