Book description
The young Markus Hauser takes a job with Selma Bruhns, an eccentric
elderly lady, who pays him to arrange hundreds of letters in
chronological order. For six days Markus works conscientiously, all
the while penetrating little by little into the past of this woman who
surrounds herself with cats and memories. On his last day, Selma
proposes a bargain: a game of cards that will change his life forever.
Written in the style of a detective novel, The Game of Cards pieces
together the puzzle of life fractured by war, and plunges the reader,
along with the characters, into a strange and troubling world.
ADOLF SCHRODER was born in 1938 in Bremen. He was a playwright and a
scriptwriter, and wrote only one other novel, The Boy. He lived in
Hamburg, where he worked as a taxi driver. He died in 2008.
