The Wax Child - Olga Ravn and sometimes lose track in

and sometimes lose track in longer exchanges

Yasuko lives a quiet life

self-interest and self-deceit – and what happens in a war over the truth

Both are now adults

The Wax Child - Olga Ravn and sometimes lose track inIt was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the