The robe pin

A robe pin reminds Josefine of the love of her life: Harun, the Berber, gave it to her. Back then, she was a young Red Cross nurse serving on the African front in Libya. Today she is 94 years old, confused, frightened and barely remembers her past. Until Yakob turns up, a young carer with Libyan roots. When he discovers an old Arabic dialect in the unintelligible sounds Josefine makes, which he himself remembers from his childhood, he becomes curious. Susanne Ospelkaus tells a touching story in her novel, which combines difficult topics with wonderful lightness: An unfulfilled love, the work of the Red Cross nurses in the war hospitals of the African campaign, the fate of the Berbers in the north of Africa. An old woman and a young man who, independently of each other, are faced with the question of their own identity. Both in search of their roots with the hope of making peace with their past? Memories of an incomprehensible love that endures through time.