A road novella by Bachmann Prize winner Sharon Dodua Otoo They are on their way to Timmendorfer Strand: Amata Haller and her boss Heinz Brockhaus, who has offered to drive her there by car. Amata is in a hurry, her mother is waiting, as she does every year on May 3. This day marks the anniversary of the sinking of the 'Cap Arcona', the catastrophe towards the end of the Second World War that her grandfather barely survived. The heat presses on the crowded streets, the journey gets longer and longer, Brockhaus talks non-stop, and Amata loses his composure. At the end of the day, Brockhaus will no longer be alive, and months later, Amata will be on trial. Biography