Lina is a promoter of walking tours, she organizes hiking trips and goes on pilgrimages. In the book “On the Road. 10,000 steps with priest Algirdas Toliats” she describes a journey on foot along the Artists’ Road in Saxon Switzerland, in the book “Coffee with Oranges” and in the novel “Passengers” – the path of the Magical Blood, extremely popular in the Middle Ages, starting in Berlin, the city the writer fell in love with thirty-five years ago.
This year, Berlin celebrates the 35th anniversary of the fall of the wall. To mark this occasion, the city will host many events throughout the year, the most important of which will take place on November 9, the day when the first barriers separating the city were breached in 1989. The first events commemorating the fall of the wall are starting now, with thousands of cherry blossoms blooming at the site of the former Berlin Wall.
“The time when cherry blossoms bloom on the site of the former Berlin Wall is magical. “No other European city has as many sakura trees as Berlin,” says Lina. – The story of their appearance in Berlin is also incredible.
The presenter of Japanese TV “Asahi” said live following the fall of the wall that he wanted to give something beautiful to this city that suffered a lot and invited the viewers to contribute. People donated nearly two million German marks at the time, for this amount it was decided to buy and plant cherry blossom avenues on the site of the former wall, so that people here would experience joy, and not remember the time when the city was divided.
Renato Neverbick’s photo/Lina Ever’s presentation of the novel “Passengers”.
After planting more than a thousand trees, the initiative spread and now almost ten thousand cherry blossoms bloom in the city every spring. According to the Japanese, blooming cherry blossoms mark the arrival of spring and bring peace and tranquility to people’s hearts. I think that this is extremely important for each of us at the moment, and that’s why I decided to invite my compatriots living in Berlin to spend a few hours on Sunday and enjoy this flowering, which is so short.”
Lina fell in love with Berlin as soon as she saw it for the first time, a month before the fall of the wall, a year later she was able to climb over it and see the Western world for the first time. Then he returned here almost every year and saw how Berlin was changing and growing. “I have never seen another city so strange, where there are so many stories, so many characters, so much freedom, so much transformation. It is a city that has suffered a lot, constantly reminding us not to build walls and cherish peace,” the writer is convinced.
The story of Lina Ever’s new novel “Passengers” begins when the heroes, Lithuanian Rūta and German Ralf, set out for a week on a forgotten medieval pilgrim route near Berlin. They have no idea where this road will lead, what ghosts of the past they will have to face while traveling. The couple walks, talks, meets random people, dialogues boil inside each of them, and at the end of the trip they are surprised how their dreams have changed.
Renato Neverbick’s photo/Lina Ever’s presentation of the novel “Passengers”.
Nothing of the sort seems to have happened, but as we step by step, events that were once shocking and kept deep within begin to surface, catch up and collapse. The psychological novel suggestively reveals the different worlds of a Lithuanian and a German, the history of Rūta’s family in newly independent Lithuania, the extremely complicated relationship with her sister, and how one person can destroy the lives of everyone close to her.
“Passengers” is Lina Ever’s fifth novel. Readers are familiar with “Love in the lens”, “Autumn in Berlin”, “Berlin novel”, “Unhighlighted strip”, as well as two travel books “On the road. 100,000 steps with priest Algirdas Toliats” and “Coffee with oranges. Diary of a Vienna Pilgrimage”.
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2024-04-08 23:55:35
