“I’m 17 years old, engaged, and I’ll be dead in about five minutes. I’ve never thought about death much, at least not about my own death. The thing that surprises me most is that I can see the sun. From the shore, the lake of Zurich looks like a bathtub full of coke. Without the bubbles, of course. I somehow expected it to be dark down here. But it isn’t. I can see rays of sunlight reaching for me. I try to touch them, even though I know they won’t keep me from drowning.”
17-year-old Leo is in love. But his father doesn’t agree with his choice of girl. He expects Leo to marry a Kosovo-Albanian. Leo desperately tries to make him understand that he needs Nicole, despite their different cultural backgrounds.
“Escape” is a reality novel for teenagers.
“Escape” – Winner of the Kranichstein Teenage Fiction Prize 2011
