Thanatos had come to Hamburg, a city he knew like the palm of his hand, while Bubis was in his office reading a book by a young writer from Dresden, a viciously funny book that made him laugh until he shook. His laughter, according to the publicity chief, could be heard in the lobby and the bookkeeper’s office and also in the copy editors’ office and the meeting room and the reading room and the bathroom and the room that served as kitchen and pantry, and it even reached the office of the boss’s wife, which was the farthest away of all. Suddenly, the laughter ceased. Everybody at the
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