My grandmother, who grew up in Germany, read it to me when I was a child and then, when I was eight, she gave me a copy that I still have. I, too, dreamed of travelling and escaping, just like that little boy.
The book that changed me as a teenager The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. It was an erotic and spiritual shock... but it really moved me physically, as if the words were entering me.
Suddenly, I realised that there was no point in responding to injustice with anger or violence. The best way to fight, for a woman, was knowledge.
The book I could never read again The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. I don't know why, but this book terrified me and I've never been able to open it again.
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