Apricot Time, by Beate Teresa Hanika

Apricot Time, by Beate Teresa Hanika
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Intergenerational encounters are always enriching. And in the literary field it is a fruitful space in which the richness of the human can emerge, a kind of synthesis between past, present and future.

Although, really past and future are always the same shadow. Elisabetta has a long past, a past time of bitterness, sadness and loneliness. Pola, the young dancer has all her time ahead of her, counting on the fragility of what we essentially are, yes ...

The present weaves together the common history of Elisabetta and Pola.

Pola comes to the life of the elderly Elisabetta as a tenant of one of her rooms. The intimacy between the two is forged from the details, from the small cordial conversations to the depths of existence. The longings of one and the memories of another move history along the path of memories and emotions.

Elisabetta goes through the remainder of her life with the liturgy of customs. Her jam jar, with the fruits harvested from the apricot tree in the garden, is linked to her long existence always in the same house. A house where, apart from Pola, love and tragedy also resided, occupying each and every one of the rooms with the same intensity. From those inhabitants of the soul come the memories that the aroma of apricot compote tries to soften.

From the small details sometimes the ideal captions emerge to begin to show the complete life album of each one. The process is slow, not all the photos are shown at once to someone who comes into your life, but little by little the confidences multiply, the snapshots of the past are finally revealed in view of both ...

And there Pola also confesses that in her still slight passage through this world, she also has snapshots to show, fears, traumas and guilt that appear from the brightness of her youthful eyes, until they become crystalline tears.

Destiny is also made up of small stories (or perhaps in the end it will be reduced to that, to the sum of the small as the basis for everything to run) Elisabetta and Pola make of their meeting a purge of emotions that unites them to compose a final portrait of transcendentally human encounter.

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