Smakebit på søndag: Code Name Verity

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finns även på svenska

Söndag igen och dags att krypa till kojs. Men först en smakbit ur boken jag läser, Code Name Verity av Elizabeth Wein. Passande nog för en kvinnodag så handlar den om två unga kvinnor, närmare bestämt deras upplevelser under andra världskriget, där Maddie arbetar som pilot och Julie blir tillfångtagen av Gestapo under ett uppdrag. Smakebiten kommer från första sidan:

God, I tried hard last week. My God, I tried. But now I know I am a coward. After the ridiculous deal I made with SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden, I know I am a coward. And I’m going to give you anything you ask, everything I can remember. Absolutely Every Last Detail.                               
     Here is the deal we made. I’m putting it down to keep it straight in my own mind. “Let’s try this,” the Hauptsturmführer said to me. “How could you be bribed?” And I said I wanted my clothes back.
     It seems petty, now. I am sure he was expecting my answer to be something defiant - “Give me Freedom” or “Victory” - or something generous, like “Stop toying with that wretched French Resistance laddie and give him a dignified and merciful death.” Or at least something more directly connected to my present circumstance, like “Please let me go to sleep” or “Feed me” or “Get rid of this sodding iron rail you have kept tied against my spine for the past three days.” But I was prepared to go sleepless and starving and upright for a good while yet if only I didn’t have to do it in my underwear - rather foul and damp at times, and SO EMBARRASSING. The warmth and dignity of my flannel skirt and woolly sweater are worth far more to me now than patriotism or integrity. 
     So von Linden sold my clothes back to me piece by piece. Except my scarf and stockings, of course, which were taken away early on to prevent me strangling myself with them (I did try).          

Ha en trevlig söndag allihop!
Och här finns inlägget jag skrev efter att ha läst hela boken :)