On his sailing trip, Leo the little wanderer arrives at a rocky bay and disembarks on a deserted pier. It belongs to two towns that are feuding furiously with one another.
The angry mayors won’t allow the traveler inside their stone walls. But luckily for Leo, between the two towns lies a piece of land that nobody owns. It is just big enough for his neat little cabin and garden, where many flowers bloom and the beautiful sounds of his violin fill the air.
On warm nights, people climb onto the walls together to admire the view and listen to the music and the sea.
“Would it be better, after all, to tear down the walls that separate us?” the townsfolk begin to wonder.
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Under en seglingstur kommer Leo den lilla resenären till en klippig vik och går iland på en övergiven pir. Piren tillhör två städer som ligger i fejd med varandra.
De arga borgmästarna vill inte släppa in resenären innanför sina stenmurar. Men som tur för Leo, ligger det ett stycke land mellan städerna som ingen äger. Marken visar sig vara precis lagom stor. Här kan Leo bygga sin lilla stuga med en blomstrande trädgård. Snart fylls luften av vacker violinmusik.
Under varma kvällar klättrar människorna upp på de båda murarna för att tillsammans kunna njuta av utsikten och lyssna till musiken och havet.
”När allt kommer omkring, skulle det inte vara bättre att vi rev ner murarna mellan oss?” börjar stadsborna undra.
Tentang Penulis
Tuula Pere (b. 1958) is Ph.D. in Law and an author from Helsinki, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation published in 2015 examines the limits of the freedom of speech in the Finnish mass media amidst the social and cultural shift of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Before her doctoral research, Tuula Pere has had a career of over two decades as a lawyer and in various expert and executive positions in industry.Since 2010, Tuula Pere has published over thirty children’s storybooks which have been translated into Swedish, English, Russian, Estonian, French, Italian and Spanish, for example. She has also published poetry and aphorisms for children and short stories for adults.
Tuula Pere is an avid music and sports enthusiast and a keen baker. She is married and a mother of three.
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