Verwandte Bande

For all the seasonal work in the vineyards of the Bündner Herrschaft, the mother comes with her two daughters from Zurich to help their own mother, Nana. The heart of the first-person narrator beats for this true homeland, Graubünden. The child wants to be like Heidi. The strong mother, always attached to the village of her own childhood, exemplifies this connection; nestled in the manageable cosmos, the child eagerly participates. It hangs on the mother's lips when she finds time to tell stories, and it also hangs on the lips of the villagers when they talk, gossip, and mourn. A hint of history wafts into the grandmother's house through the immediate proximity of the houses of Salis and Sprecher and through the strangely uncritical war stories of the mother. The child is captivated by everything. Everything holds equal significance; nothing is more important.