Madeira Giacci Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, this novel examines urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture, presenting a startling vision of a future devoid of empathy. In a few short years, the world becomes even more uncertain, with politics shifting rightward: Trump is gone, Brexit and Frexit are complete, and a global financial crisis fuels armed conflict and mass migration. In Germany, an ultrapopulist movement governs as well-off citizens turn inward, focusing on their own lives. Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the news, concentrating on her family and her clinic specializing in suicide prevention. However, her legitimate business is linked to a secret, lucrative operation called The Bridge, which supplies terrorist organizations with suicide bombers. Utilizing a complex candidate-identifying algorithm designed by Babak, her brilliant programmer and only employee, The Bridge has cornered the market on terrorism, making news of a thwarted suicide attack in Leipzig a shocking development. When The Bridge's database is stolen, Britta, Babak, and their latest recruit are forced into hiding, pursued by a new terrorist organization known as the Empty Hearts, presenting a challenge unlike any they have faced before.

This book, one of the most haunting things that Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris, but this is not an autobiographical confession. It is a secular miracle-tale, in which the vagrant Andreas, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence. The novella is extraordinarily compressed, dry-eyed and witty, despite its melancholic subject-matter.