- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
These are the first lines of the novel. Each of the first four chapters begins with a similar declaration, as the four protagonists name what they believe is hunting them. Joana is hunted by guilt, Alfred by fear, Emilia by shame, and Florian by fate. These motifs will reappear throughout the novel.
When Joana writes that she is hunted by guilt, she means that guilt is with her always, and although she does her best to escape it, she cannot. Although Joana managed to escape her native Lithuania and repatriate to Germany, many of her relatives remained behind, and were…