CHAPTER THIRTEEN
One Friday shortly after New Year, you take the train to Berlin with Kerstin. She has an interview at the Pergamon Museum for a temporary position as a researcher. You tell everyone you’re going to the launch party for the latest issue of Not Only But Also, which features some photographs you took in November of the area around Shakespeare Street. You are going to the party, but that’s not all.
It’s cold on the train. You and Kerstin sit in the dining car wrapped up in your coats, drinking endless cups of coffee and smoking cigarettes.
“I can’t believe Marek invited your British friend to the party,” Kerstin says.
“I can’t believe he accepted the invitation.”
She smiles and stubs out her cigarette. “He probably wants to keep an eye on you.”
“Maybe. I think he would’v
