Jean Améry 1912-1978

For at slippe for alle de billeder han har i sit hoved af søsterens alt for tidlige død

Og selvom der er en slutning

vuggestue eller børnehave

hvordan grønlandske politikere protesterede ved domstolen i Haag

There but for the Jean Améry 1912-1978There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more