CHAPTER FIVE
Lanky Jana is there when you arrive at the University Tower to find out if you’ve been awarded a place on the Study in the Non-Socialist Abroad programme. Everyone knows she is Frau Aner’s right-hand woman.
The results are posted on a board outside Hencke’s office. Students have travelled back to Leipzig from other cities to see them before the letters go out, not because they want to know what mark they got in prose composition, but because they want to know if they got a place on the Study in the Non-Socialist Abroad programme. It’s a golden chance to travel to the West. There might never be another.
Jana doesn’t pretend there is any reason for her to be there. She just stands in the middle of the corridor like a block of wood, while the others look at the board. Looking
