Where Were You Robert Author:Hans Magnus Enzensberger What would it be like to stare into a film or a painting and have it come to life around you? To step beyond the frame and live in another time and place? To ride as a highway robber in a long-vanished age of swordplay, or dazzle a philosopher with a device made centuries after his birth? Meet your grandmother when she was a just a little gir... more »l, or fence with an impertinent eighteenth-century squire to silence his gossip about the princess you love?
Robert Knows.
One day absent-minded Robert, fourteen years old with distant eyes, becomes simply absent Robert, adrift in history. On an enchanted adventure through the centuries, he falls into picture after picture, not sure when or where he will emerge. But each time he shifts, rubs his eyes to reveal a new life, he is further and further from the one he belongs in, from his home and his mother's kitchen, where the journey began...« less