Teresa Präauer

Plot:
For the summer, two kids have to stay with their grandparents as their parents travel, sending post card after post card. The grandfather reads those post cards to them, or is it not so much reading as telling stories? In any case, he also tells them about the Japanese woman he met when he was a pilot and whose plane he repaired, and he criticizes their own attempts at building planes. And interwoven is another story about a pilot who leads her flock of birds South.

Für den Herrscher aus Übersee is nice, but a little too preoccupied with being meaningful and artsy, which in the end has the exact opposite effect of leaving it shallow.

Read more on my blog: http://kalafudra.com/2015/04/14/fur-den-herrscher-aus-ubersee-for-the-emperor-fr...… (more)